Is Sunak calling an election today?
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
We are not ones to gossip but frankly the Westminster rumour mill is in overdrive, so we thought we should talk you through how the talk of a general election began and why we are all suspicious of a big announcement.
Later, we talk to the Palestinian High Commissioner as three EU states - including Ireland - state their recognition of Palestine. What effect will this have - what changes?
And we speak to the brother of an Israeli hostage - Naama Levi- about the sexual violence inflicted on women being held by Hamas since October.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | At quarter past 10 last night, I received a message, which I passed on straight away to our work newsagents WhatsApp group. And I had to say that I |
| 0:24.0 | didn't know how credible the source was, but that they were hearing strong rumours that Rishi |
| 0:29.8 | Sunak was going to call a general election tomorrow, i.e. today. We are no further on knowing whether or not he will. We're recording at half |
| 0:40.4 | past one, but we're taking you behind the curtain in this episode. Westminster is in |
| 0:45.6 | overdrive about an election which may or may not happen. On today's show, and it could be the |
| 0:51.2 | first of today's shows, we're going to be taking you through what we know, what we don't, what might happen next. Welcome to the news agents. |
| 1:02.1 | The Newsagents. It's Emily. It's Lewis. And we're delighted to say that it's John's birthday, |
| 1:08.2 | and John is out of the country, which is doubly ironic because John never, ever wants to miss a big moment. |
| 1:15.4 | So he's actually taken his mic with him. |
| 1:17.2 | Yeah, well, it's important on this potentially absolutely agenda setting, electric political day in Westminster. |
| 1:22.4 | So it's important that one third of the newsagents is currently in Prague. |
| 1:26.2 | So that's all good. |
| 1:28.5 | That's all worked well. |
| 1:33.5 | Look, as Emily said, it has been a really, really weird kind of 12, 18 hours or so. |
| 1:34.4 | And particularly in Westminster. |
| 1:36.7 | I can't quite remember a day like it. |
| 1:42.7 | And it's a really interesting example of how Twitter in particular comes into its own. |
| 1:44.8 | No one's entirely sure where these rumors have come from. |
| 1:48.4 | And when Emily said last night, oh, she's heard this thing about soon. |
| 1:50.2 | I have to say, I mean, I was really skeptical. |
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