How Politicians are REALLY Feeling About the Local Elections

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Today we look at what politicians are saying on camera and behind the scenes about the local elections coming up on Thursday.

Laura, Paddy, and Henry discuss whether it could be a good week for all the parties apart from Labour and the Conservatives.

And there’s talk of a future coalition between Reform and the Conservative Party.

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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O'Connell with Henry Zeffman. It was made by Chris Flynn and Bella Saltiel. The technical producer was Jonny Hall. The weekend series editor is Chris Flynn. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:04.8	Paddy, I've got a present for you.
0:06.5	At last, I've been waiting for these moments.
0:09.6	Well, don't be too excited because you're not going to be able to keep it.
0:11.7	Your present is that I'm going to show you, Ant-Nuscasters.
0:16.3	This is my election night flipper.
0:19.3	Oh, it's your election night flipper.
0:21.5	It is. And here's all the stuff.
0:24.3	And it's very exciting. And you can't look at it anymore.
0:26.4	Oh, that's fabulous. So that's basically little cheat sheets on every constituency involved in the election.
0:31.1	Exactly. And it makes me really excited. And the way that we do this is that it's genuinely, it's a thing people don't have very often these days. It's a photo album. Remember them? I do. I do. I do. I remember them. So this is a good way to
0:42.1	preview that Laura will be bringing you on television, the local election and mayoral election
0:47.1	and by-election program on Thursday evening. Yes, and Friday. And because the elections are
0:51.9	weird, we're kind of on and then off and then off.
0:54.3	But there's going to be tons of coverage everywhere with my flipper.
0:57.1	Well, we've got the flipper and we've also got flipping Henry Zepman,
1:01.2	who's going to be here to help us on Sunday's political newscast.
1:05.8	Newscast from the BBC.
1:08.2	He has just compared me to the fat controller. Did I say that? I can't believe I said that.
1:14.0	Next way, sir. This is R for the benefit of Earth. I'm not personally a huge Sabrina carpenter fam. I don't think I'm being rude.
1:21.7	I like landscapes. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey.
1:27.5	Hello, it's Pdy in the studio.
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