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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

“The most shambolic campaign launch in history” – Steve Richards on Election ’24

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Rishi Sunak’s hapless, rain-sodden election announcement left the country agog. Is this how he means to go on? Why did he choose now? Can he really handle six weeks of punishing campaigning? Hasn’t anyone in No.1 got an umbrella? Seasoned political journalist Steve Richards of the Rock N Roll Politics podcast forecasts stormy electoral weather with Andrew Harrison.     We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to Indeed.com/bunker for £100 sponsored credit.    Support us on Patreon.   Written and presented by Podmasters Group Editor Andrew Harrison. Producer: Eliza Davis Beard. Audio producer: Jade Bailey. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson and artwork by James Parrett. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production    Instagram | Twitter        podmasters.co.uk  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved

0:05.5

photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

0:11.8

Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

0:13.0

I loved going to college.

0:14.0

It's good you can retrain and do something.

0:16.0

Yeah, yeah.

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look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and I'm Andrew Harrison and I have one question for our shell-shocked listeners, are you okay?

1:15.3

On Monday morning we thought the biggest story of the week would be the infected blood scandal

1:18.9

and Paula Venl's giving evidence at the post office inquiry.

1:22.0

Now we're in the throes of the general

1:23.7

election that everyone except Ritchie Sunak was desperate for but nobody

1:28.2

expected to happen so quickly. Why now? What does Sunak think he can gain from a

1:32.0

summer election?

1:33.2

Have the battle lines been truly drawn yet?

1:35.6

Or have the Conservatives effectively lost already?

1:38.7

Here to walk me through this is a man who's covered more elections than the Sunak has

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