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I found myself wondering the other day, how many elections has diplomatic correspondent

James Landale covered in total?

And now I can find out the answer. UK general elections.

UK general elections.

I've definitely not covered the Honduran. I suppose the first one you could

say I covered was 1992 as a student helping my professor who was a pundit and on the local

regional program and I sat in the back working out the swings with a

calculator and a pad of paper which I then passed him a piece of paper so that he

could sound terribly informed about the swings in each constituency.

I also spent a bit of time clock watching,

output, both the BBC 90v and others,

for a private company that was just assessing whether or not they were meeting the election guidelines of giving all the parties a fair crack of the whip.

Which is why you've always been so intrinsically fair at election time.

It's hardwired into you. But I know that this is probably the first, well I know for a fact,

this is the first ever UK general election where the party leaders have had to comment on the fact that a

former US president has just been found guilty of a felony.

Yeah. Because it's never happened before. It is just a sort of, when you say it like that

it just it just takes your breath away and yes they've all had to comment.

Right, and we will discuss what they've been saying along with lots of other events on the campaign trail on this

episode of Newscast.

Newscast.

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