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Coffee House Shots

How will Sunak and Starmer run their election campaigns?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

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🗓️ 6 January 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Rishi Sunak has all but confirmed that this year’s general election will take place in autumn. How will the Prime Minister, and Keir Starmer, run their campaigns?

James Heale speaks to Fraser Nelson and Katie Perrior, former director of communications for Theresa May, and now a director at iNHouse Communications.

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welcome to this special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots. I'm

0:23.7

joined today by the editor of the spectator Fraser Nelson and

0:26.7

Katie Perio, former Downey Street Director of Combs, and now in-house

0:29.7

communications. This year we are going to have an election and we're looking ahead today at the election strategy on which the Conservatives will fight it.

0:36.0

Fraser, let's start with you first of all.

0:38.0

What will the Conservatives fight this election campaign on and what should they fight it on?

0:42.0

It's a good question because typically Ritchie Sunneck has started the year thinking what

0:47.2

I've been going to do this year and at this time last year he came up with his now notorious

0:50.5

five pledges that was a rather unsunuchite thing to do, but to the

0:54.5

focus groups asking what was important to them and they came out with a laundry list

0:58.1

of things. And so the strategy then was to say, okay I cannot cannot pretend that I'm a border-style charismatic politician, but I'm a hard worker.

1:06.7

I'm a sort of person who can get things done.

1:08.5

So I'm not asking you to like me or to be inspired by me or to have rithee snuck posters on your wall, I'm asking you to believe that A, I'll work hard for you and B, I will get results.

1:18.0

Now that strategy is a little bit harder to go into relation with if there aren't actually many results and there aren't right now.

1:25.6

He said to stop the small boats, but there's been progress etc.

1:28.6

But I imagine he will be probably looking for a similar retail offer. He basically, as George Michael once put it,

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