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Hello and welcome to a Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots.

I'm Katie Andrews and I'm joined by our deputy editor Freddie Gray and our political editor,

Katie Balls. Katie, for the magazine this week, you write your column on next year's elections.

That's plural because for the first time since 1992, the US and the UK will have an election

in the same year and you write in your column that for the first time since 1964,

there's a real chance that those campaigns might actually overlap.

Take a throw it.

Yes, I think it's fair to say Rishi said it'd be quite brave at the moment to go to the polls

early. There have been some here who have enjoyed the idea of a spring election,

partly because the local elections were probably very difficult for the Tories.

The last time the next set of local elections took place was that Boris Johnson High Point.

So therefore, if you had an election then you managed to, you know,

put it all together and it's probably easier to get your activists out, you know,

once a year, well and twice.

However, I think it's safe to say that while the Tories are about 20 points behind the polls,

the default is going to be to push it back and therefore you have a situation where

I think an autumn election is in this pretty likely.

And well, that is October or November and I think there are some who think

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