Generational Warfare: Has Rishi Sunak’s electoral gambit misfired?
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🗓️ 30 May 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
It’s week one of the campaign and after a comical series of false starts, Rishi Sunak and the Tories have fired the first shots in a campaign of generational warfare.
Nish and Coco are joined by political correspondent Liz Bates to find out if there are votes to be won in these wedge politics. Later, they speak to Christine Jardine from the Liberal Democrats about their differences with Labour as well as the electoral battleground that is Scotland. And, as the campaign heats up - the WTF moments are multiplying. Nish, Coco and Liz dissect their favourites from the week.
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Liz Bates, Sky News
Christine Jardine, Scottish Liberal Democrat MP
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| 0:00.0 | Hi this is Podzav the UK. I'm Nishkamar and I'm Coco Khan. |
| 0:07.8 | It's week one of the campaign and the Tories have declared generational warfare. |
| 0:11.8 | We're joined by political correspondent Liz Bates to find out if there are |
| 0:15.0 | votes to be won in wedge politics. And we speak to Christine Jardin from the |
| 0:18.9 | Liberal Democrats about the differences between them and the Labour Party and Battlefront, Scotland. |
| 0:23.6 | Hello everyone, welcome to the show. |
| 0:28.6 | We are joined once again with the, it says here, heady aroma of Sky News's political correspondent, Liz Bates. |
| 0:36.1 | Welcome, Liz. At this point, this is just kind of bullying, isn't it? |
| 0:39.2 | Yeah, yeah, it's quite a lot of pressure for you as well. |
| 0:41.2 | It's big, it is. But when you walk into into rooms now do you have to think about how you smell? |
| 0:44.8 | I've started showering much more regularly. Oh no this is now bullying. |
| 0:49.4 | For anyone who hasn't listened to last Wednesday's episode, It was the first time that we'd all |
| 0:53.6 | been in the studio, though Liz has been a frequent guest on the show, and Coco said |
| 0:57.1 | it was nice to both see and smell her, which is one of the strangest opening |
| 1:01.5 | conversational gambit. |
| 1:02.8 | Anyway, I've been to talk to with your HR department, so let's just leave it at that. |
| 1:06.8 | Liz, you've covered a few elections. |
| 1:10.9 | I sure have. |
| 1:11.9 | Is there one that has started this badly for |
| 1:16.4 | particularly for the party in government? That's a good question. I mean they've all |
| 1:20.9 | been so different because I suppose the last one was 2019 |
| 1:23.2 | I mean 2019 was it certainly had a kind of shambolic feel to it because it |
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