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Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

The Election Bonus

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

Podmasters

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.6825 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Rishi Sunak surprised most of us by calling an election for July 4th. Why has he done it when he's 20 points behind? What will happen in the campaign and how will the parties handle the new levels of intense scrutiny? It’s time for the Rock N Roll Politics co-operative to gather more often than usual to make sense of the suddenly changed political context… The election is only six weeks away! Rock & Roll Politics is live at Kings Place on July 10th I'm also live at the Edinburgh Festival from Sun Aug 11th with a new show every day. Get tickets here. Written and presented by Steve Richards Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:31.4

in this period. So do subscribe because we all need to get together on a regular basis. And I could be

1:38.8

suddenly popping up. And if you subscribe, it goes automatically into your feed.

1:51.4

Well, against my expectation, certainly, against a lot of your expectations, though not all I know.

1:56.8

Rishi Sunak has called the election for July the 4th. Forget about all that stuff about the autumn.

1:59.9

Will the party conferences go ahead and all that

2:02.8

kind of thing? They will. But in a post-election context. In other words, those party conferences,

2:10.8

it could be the first Labour conference with a Labour government in power since that 2010 defeat,

2:18.5

and the Tory one could be in the context of a brutal defeat for them.

2:23.6

But that's leaping ahead.

2:25.5

Let's, if it's okay with all of you, just focus on the announcement,

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