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Electoral Dysfunction

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Electoral Dysfunction

Sky News

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.4764 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

It's an Easter special - so grab yourself a hot cross bun and listen in as Beth, Ruth and Harriet answer all of your questions.

From whether Zack Polanski and Nigel Farage might have more in common than they think, to if Ruth and Harriet are ever tempted to make a return to frontline politics - all are up for discussion.

Plus - Ruth and Harriet go head-to-head over why Labour has never had a female leader.

And, the most pressing question of all - how does Beth find the time to train for a marathon, and what are her top tips?

Got a question for the burner phone? WhatsApp 07934 200 444 or email electoraldysfunction@sky.uk.

And if you didn't know, you can also watch Beth, Ruth and Harriet on YouTube.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Sky News, the full story first.

0:09.5

Just too irritating. I hate it when formers do campaigns telling the current lot what to do.

0:21.6

About mile 20 when you're thinking, why the hell am I doing it?

0:25.6

Please don't blame me.

0:30.6

It drives me insane.

0:31.6

That sense of just innate superiority that Lever people have.

0:35.6

They're in the room together and they're about to have a punch shot.

0:40.8

Hello and welcome to Electral Dysfunction with me, Beth Rigby.

0:44.9

Me Ruth Davidson and me, Harriet Harmon.

0:47.0

Now, happy bank holiday weekend.

0:49.4

Hopefully you're all having a few days off, maybe a little feast for Easter, a bit of sunshine,

0:56.0

maybe you're skipping through the daffodils, I don't know what you're doing. I do know that

1:00.1

Parliament is in recess. So MPs will be in their various constituencies and I'm on a sunlounge just

1:07.6

somewhere. Do you know, I do the most wholesome thing at Easter, like genuinely old-fashioned wholesome. So myself and an army buddy of mine from when I was in like 25 years ago, we take our kids up a hill and we've pre-boiled eggs and we make them decorate them and we roll them down the hill and we go for a big family walk and then we have a meal together every Easter. And we never see each other enough during the year. So we always make a point of it. And it's nice. The dogs come. It's very Enid Blyton, isn't it? It's very wholesome. I remember being a kid and we used to wrap, I don't know if you've done this. I don't know if you've done this. Harry, me and my mum used to wrap onion skins or sorry the paper paper of onions, you wrap them round the eggs and

1:47.6

then you ball the eggs and then they dye the shell of the egg. I used to love doing that.

1:53.0

When we were kids, we always used to paint eggs because we had a hill in our garden, we'd roll them

1:56.6

down that. So I've always done the boiled eggs and we'd make them into spiders and have pipe

2:00.5

cleaners coming off them as legs or make them into ladybirds or something like that with felt pens or whatever. So I've kind of, when I was a kid I always did that and I've really enjoyed doing it with Finn, but he's less interested in that and more interested in chocolate eggs. Yeah, well. I'm not going to lie. When I was, I like it. Can I just, one other thing, when I was a child, we got one Easter egg and that was it. That was it. Just one Easter egg, which I would cherish. And now the children get... I mean... Now they're in the shops from about January. Harriet, you must have to be buying quite a few Easter eggs for all the grandchildren. Well, I'm with one set of grandchildren over Easter, but we don't do the rolling down the hill. It will be hiding the eggs in the go on. Nice. But it'll be boiling them with food dye. I haven't heard about that onion skins, but I love craft, so I'm going to definitely get on the onion skins. But, you know, we do the boiled eggs as well, which we're very interested in. The kids, of course, are only interested in the chocolate. But it'll be nice. So for the onion, all you do is you take the brown, you know, like the brown skin of the onion, you wrap the egg in it, and then you just put loads of cotton around it so it holds it, boil it, and then each one will come out, died in a unique way.

3:08.4

You're going to love it.

3:14.2

Well, we've got an Easter treat for you as well.

3:16.0

Our Easter treat for you is a Q&A, so thank you to everybody who sent in their emails and their WhatsApp.

3:21.9

A reminder you can always get in touch with us.

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