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🗓️ 1 May 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Today we look at local elections!
On Thursday, voters head to the polls to elect councillors, mayors, and police and crime commissioners.
These are the last local elections before the next general election, but what will we learn from the results? And who has Luke Skywalker endorsed?
Adam and Chris are joined by election guru Professor Sir John Curtice and political correspondent Alex Forsyth.
And, Scotland editor James Cook has been speaking to former SNP leader Humza Yousaf after he resigned on Monday. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere
Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Flynn with Natasha Mayo and Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Hannah Montgomery. The editor is Sam Bonham.
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
0:04.7 | Hello Alex, how you doing? |
0:06.0 | Hello Adam, I'm all right, how are you? |
0:07.5 | Nice to speak to you again. |
0:09.2 | So when James Cook was sitting in my seat a few weeks ago. He was reading out newscaster's messages |
0:15.3 | on discord and one newscast listener had said that the general election should be called |
0:21.1 | the Jenny Leck as in like the yeah as in like sequel to Cosy lives. |
0:25.3 | Oh no I don't know if I can go with it I'll be honest because in my mind isn't Jenny Leck you're |
0:29.9 | kind of like you're lecky in your house do I mean that's it puts me in mind of that not a kind of like you're lucky in your house. Do you know what I mean? |
0:32.5 | It puts me in mind of that, not a kind of national opening thing. |
0:35.7 | And also I think I get a bit confused by all of these clever mash-up acronym-style things. |
0:40.6 | I don't think I've got the brain capacity. Well, I think you might be on the wrong side of history because a journalist called John |
0:46.0 | Sturgis tweeted or posted on X. |
0:49.0 | News from a senior Whitehall civil service source. |
0:52.2 | The general election is now being routinely referred to as the |
0:55.7 | Jenny Leck. |
0:56.7 | Wow, God, wow, I take it back, I stand correct it, maybe it's going to catch on. |
1:02.0 | But what came first, The chicken or the egg. |
1:04.0 | Have we inadvertently invented and then popularised that phrase? |
1:08.0 | Or was it just, newscasters are so well plugged into the zeitgeist that they picked up on it and reported it to us, which came first. |
1:16.0 | Well, I mean, it could be the rule, but I would like to think that senior white-haul civil servants sit there and listen to |
1:21.0 | newscast every day. I've got no doubt they do. |
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