Extra, extra, read all about it now. Oh, baby.

Extra, extra, read all about it now. Oh, baby.

Good morning and welcome to the Papers podcast with me, Richie Allen. I hope you're well.

It is Thursday, May 23rd, 2024. And it is a filthy morning here in

Salford, much of the UK, experiencing and experienced yesterday, experiencing today heavy

rain, very heavy rain. At the moment, it was horrible this morning taking the old puppies out

to the park, but there you are. It's part of the life. It's part of the lifestyle of the puppy

walker. You have to accept it. The dogs don't understand, you see. You can't explain to a dog.

We're not going to go out because it's raining.

They don't understand it.

So you've got to get out for the 90 minutes that you do every other day and get soaked into the skin.

It's part of the lifestyle.

As I said, May 23rd, it's also, today is the birthday of the woman with many names more nicknames than Apollo Creed that's El

Frogo Tremendo my better half caroline was born on this day in 1978 so happy birthday

caroline ungentlemanly is it ungentlemanly uh 46 then? Ungentlemanly. Forty-six then, by my calculator. She is today. Right. I'm going to go straight to the front pages and tell you, although you won't be surprised, only one story, really, on the papers, front pages today, the election. Yesterday afternoon, a rain-soaked, everything is rain-soaked, Downing Street,

emerged, out-emerged from down. The man with the outsized ears, Rishi Sunak, out he came and said,

surprise, the election will be held on the 4th of July.

Most money, most money had been on a November election,

but it's going to happen on July 4th.

I went to the palace, I asked the king's permission to dissolve Parliament.

The King granted me the permission to do so.

So Parliament is dissolved.

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