Is the Tory campaign already falling apart?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 28 May 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Rishi Sunak has had a gaffe-filled weekend amidst new policy announcements over the triple lock and compulsory National Service. Lib Dem leader Ed Davey has fallen into a 'sewage-stricken' lake whilst paddleboarding. It's only day 5 of the general election campaign, and it already feels like the campaign teams can't get away from awkward videos and uncomfortable photos. Why are the campaigns off to such a strange start?
The two leaders have agreed to debate each other next week, as per The Telegraph.
And when will Labour decide what to do with Diane Abbott?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.3 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | If you are of the P.T. Barnum School of Political Thinking, the great political philosopher, |
| 0:18.4 | that there is no such thing as bad publicity, then, hats off, Sir Ed Davy, today has been a triumph. |
| 0:31.8 | That was Ed Davy, falling head first into Lake Windermere. |
| 0:37.1 | A lake which, by his own admission, indeed, the reason he was there, is full of human sewage. |
| 0:43.1 | It is day five of the campaign. It's not entirely easy to see where Ed Davy goes from here. |
| 0:49.1 | For anyone hoping for a restoration of calm and stability to British politics by the general election campaign. |
| 0:56.4 | We think you're going to be disappointed. Welcome to the news agents. |
| 1:03.3 | The news agents. It's John. It's Lewis. And I thought you would say he's already sinking in ship, |
| 1:09.0 | but you didn't. And I thought that showed admirable self-restraint. I sort of feel that he's already sinking in ship but you didn't and i thought that showed admirable |
| 1:11.3 | self-restraint i sort of feel that he's already done it to himself he doesn't need he doesn't need |
| 1:16.5 | our cruelty john to go along with it i mean you know what what next firing out of a cannon i think |
| 1:21.1 | firing out of a cannon evil can evil trying to jump 64 london buses on a motorbike i worry he's peaks |
| 1:26.1 | i mean i just like the idea of like this morning, first thing this morning. |
| 1:29.3 | And he goes into his team and says, right, what's on the agenda team? |
| 1:32.3 | What's on? |
| 1:32.6 | Well, Ed, it's good. |
| 1:33.9 | We're going to put you on a paddleboard on Lake Windermere. |
| 1:36.9 | What could possibly go wrong with that? |
| 1:38.3 | But I kind of wonder whether Ed Davy did it, in the hope that he would fall off or maybe actually wanted to fall off. |
| 1:45.0 | I mean, it didn't look that elegant, but it was sort of like a dad being pushed in the swimming pool by his kid and you make a big show of it and oh! |
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