Sunak and Labour's Final Sunday Pitch
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BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Laura talks with Paddy and Henry about her interview with Rishi Sunak this morning, in which the PM came out fighting once again.
Labour’s campaign chief Pat McFadden was also on her show. They discuss why it was him, and not Keir Starmer.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hi everybody. |
| 0:06.2 | So Ritchie Sunak is still fighting for votes and he's still fighting for his job |
| 0:09.8 | because it's not over yet and rule number one of journalism is never assume but he was on |
| 0:15.2 | with us this morning and it was quite a big moment I think I think it was maybe the |
| 0:21.6 | last big moment that he will have during this election campaign and that's what makes it so big because |
| 0:27.6 | look there's lots of polls day by day you can't move for polls and publicly Rishisunak says he said to you in fact he still |
| 0:34.6 | thinks he'll be Prime Minister on Friday after the general election. |
| 0:37.6 | Privately I can tell you the Conservative campaign believe the polls and the |
| 0:41.7 | Labour campaign believe the polls and the labor campaign believe the polls and so they |
| 0:45.0 | need Rishisunak needs something to change and this was perhaps his big last |
| 0:50.1 | opportunity to speak to the public about why he thinks things need to change. |
| 0:53.7 | I was struck by the fact that he has faced a much smaller electorate before when he stood |
| 0:58.0 | as conservative leader and lost to his trust and then magically got the job anyway so maybe in his head there is |
| 1:04.6 | also there's two outcomes and one of them is he's prime minister for another five |
| 1:08.8 | years. Let's |
| 1:15.0 | on this Sunday's episode of newscast. Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:16.0 | People do call me the show Jenny Alet. |
| 1:18.0 | Whaling day will be on Thursday the 4th of July. |
| 1:21.0 | No way. |
| 1:22.0 | Hank about town. |
| 1:24.0 | It's going to be a very long six weeks. |
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