Q&A: Huw Edwards, populists and upcoming elections
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
This Friday we answer your questions.
Which upcoming elections will Jon and Emily be staying up to watch? Will Huw Edwards have to pay back his BBC salary? And could Kamala Harris serve three terms as President?
Editor: Tom Hughes
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.7 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.1 | It is Friday and it is our very special or bog standard Q&A. |
| 0:20.0 | It's very special for me because it's the last one that I'm going to do. |
| 0:22.7 | Where are you going? |
| 0:23.3 | I'm going away. Where? |
| 0:24.9 | Get out your violin. |
| 0:26.8 | Small one. |
| 0:27.7 | Get out your tiny violin. I'm going on holiday. |
| 0:30.2 | Oh, nice. |
| 0:30.7 | Yes. I will not be here, but I will be talking about the US once a week. |
| 0:35.3 | Very good. Very good. Well, I hope you have a lovely holiday, mate, list. |
| 0:38.9 | It's been quite a run the past few weeks. |
| 0:42.4 | Are you going to ask a question? |
| 0:43.6 | Yes, this is the first question. |
| 0:45.6 | With the UK election now over, |
| 0:47.9 | what would you say is the most interesting election coming up over the next six to 12 months? |
| 0:52.6 | And you can't say the US, spoil sport, Claire, |
| 0:55.5 | but we can't say the US. Well, so Claire, I've done my research and I can tell you the elections |
| 1:01.4 | and I'm not getting ever so tickled by any of them. We've got Azerbaijan, Algeria, Jordan, |
| 1:09.0 | Romania, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Mozambique, and that's all before October. |
| 1:13.7 | We go on to Lithuania, Moldova, Iraq, regional elections, Georgia. |
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