Polls Apart
Talk Breakfast
Ricky Freelove
4.3 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This morning on Talk Breakfast with Mark Dolan, polling showed Conservatives, Reform and Greens tied on 21 points, plunging Westminster into electoral uncertainty. The unprecedented deadlock boosts Kemi Badenoch, dents Nigel Farage's momentum, and revives pressure for a united Right before elections. Meanwhile, doctors treating small-boat migrants are being offered double average GP pay under a £60 million government contract.
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| 0:00.0 | The home of common sense. This is talk. |
| 0:05.0 | Someone that's a very steady hand at the tiller is the broadcaster, writer and journalist Emma. |
| 0:11.0 | Good morning, Emma. |
| 0:12.0 | Good morning, Mark. |
| 0:13.0 | Kemi and Nigel, neck and neck, as Paul reveals the Tories reform and the Greens are tied, |
| 0:18.0 | will the right finally unite to save us from a coalition of chaos? |
| 0:22.4 | If you have an administration made up of Labour, the S&P and the Greens, it'll be far more left-wing |
| 0:28.8 | than the current lot. Be afraid, be very afraid. Be very afraid. That is a coalition of chaos, |
| 0:34.2 | truly. Kirstama, Zach Polanski and Ed Davy. Captain Cleavage. Yeah, Captain Inflatable Boobes. I mean, really, this is frightening. And good for Kemi. She's stuck in there. It's not been easy. The Tories have been written off, haven't they? Yes, they have. I mean, and if, okay, of course, uniting the right is not going to be that simple. and a party of Nigel Farage and Kemi Bade, not, however you do it, whoever gets the top |
| 0:58.7 | job and whoever gets second job and all of that. |
| 1:01.5 | But the threat right now, from the far left, from the Loonies, from the center left, from |
| 1:07.2 | the greens is existential. |
| 1:09.2 | This country, Mark, is being destroyed. I hate to say this on it. And by the way, |
| 1:14.2 | happy Easter. It's Easter Sunday. We should be saying things about he has risen. But I mean, this country is not |
| 1:19.2 | risen. No, it's not. It's going down the plug hole very, very fast. The issue I've got, you know, |
| 1:25.5 | a lot of our viewers and listeners see Farage and Reform as our only hope. |
| 1:31.3 | They consider the country metaphorically to be at five minutes to midnight, just in terms of our identity, our economy, our society. |
| 1:38.6 | And what they don't want is they don't want that diluted by the Tories who are responsible for many of the problems we now face. |
| 1:46.0 | And they will see Tory involvement as an impediment to the change that the country needs. |
| 1:51.0 | I know. But can reform deliver that? Do they even have the manpower, the experience? |
| 1:57.0 | Do they have what it takes? |
| 2:00.0 | Isn't there a way of making them more palatable? |
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