LBC Boxing Day Special with Shelagh Fogarty, Iain Dale and James O'Brien (Part 2)
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Shelagh, Iain and James are back to continue their look back at 2023, picking through the bones of some of the main stories of the year. They share personal anecdotes and observations from their experiences covering the events that have been making headlines throughout 2023.
In Part 2:
- Predictions for 2024
- When we might get an election and how it will play out
- US politics, foreign policy, and potential candidates for 2024 election
- Is Trump making a comeback?
- Boris Johnson's controversial report
- Mayoralty elections
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Shelagh, Iain and James are back on LBC in January.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, I'm Sheila Fogarty, popping up in the whole show podcast feed, but I think you might enjoy this, certainly hope so, our LBC Christmas special. |
| 0:16.0 | Quite a year. It always is, isn't it? Another unprecedented chapter in UK politics, and this is part |
| 0:21.6 | two, so let's get into it. It's time to have a look at what 2024 might hold. It's going to be a |
| 0:29.1 | huge election year, not just here and of course in America, but in plenty of other territories as |
| 0:34.0 | well. So where all this might be going is anybody's guess, which is what we'll do |
| 0:39.3 | next. Have a guess. When do you think it's going to be? Ian go first. I used to firmly believe |
| 0:47.1 | it would be autumn and I don't necessarily mean October because the reason I don't think it'll be |
| 0:52.0 | in October is because they'd have to cancel the party conferences and for all the parties, they're major money spinners. So I don't think it'll be in October is because they'd have to cancel the party conferences |
| 0:54.3 | and for all the parties, they're major money spinners. So I don't think it'll be October. If it is in the autumn, |
| 1:00.8 | I think it'll be November. I mean, in theory, you could have, in October, November, |
| 1:07.5 | you could have, say, in October the 31st election here. You could have then the US election on |
| 1:15.2 | November the 3rd. You could have an Irish election around the same time and an Australian one. |
| 1:20.4 | Now, those two aren't set in stone, a bit like else that the prime ministers get the chance |
| 1:24.6 | to choose the date. There is a school of thought it could be early December. |
| 1:28.6 | Right. |
| 1:30.7 | There is a school of thought it could be January because if your prime minister... |
| 1:33.7 | Are there any months you haven't mentioned now? |
| 1:36.5 | Well, I'm just giving... |
| 1:37.5 | In this, forensic and Alice up. |
| 1:40.8 | No, I'm cancer. |
| 1:42.1 | Could be February. |
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