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This Is Why

The stories from the election battle buses

This Is Why

Sky News

News Commentary, Daily News, News

4.0552 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On the final day of campaigning, the Sky News correspondents who have followed party leaders to every corner of the UK reflect on the key moments.  
  
From kayaking photo opportunities to people who bet against their own election chances – they tell Niall Paterson how the stories have cut through and the impact they could have on polling day.  
  
Joining Niall are our political correspondents - Darren McCaffrey with the Conservatives, Serena Barker-Singh on the Labour bus, Matthew Thompson following the Liberal Democrats, Gurpreet Narwan from the Reform trail, and in Scotland Connor Gillies on the Scottish National Party.

Producers: Rosie Gillott, Soila Apparicio 
Editor: Paul Stanworth   
Promotions producer: David Chipakupaku

Transcript

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0:00.0

Pain in my hip.

0:02.0

I keep feeling dizzy.

0:04.9

I'm getting migraines more often.

0:09.6

There's another way to contact your GP practice

0:12.4

by simply sending your symptoms and requests

0:15.2

through their website or the NHS app.

0:18.2

We're delivering an NHS fit for the future. Tap it, type it and we'll take care of it.

0:24.3

Julia, how do you spell vertebrae? Oh, just tight pain in the neck. One more sleep, everyone. Just

0:32.2

one more sleep till it's all over. This time tomorrow, the polls will have opened, and of course the podcast

0:39.0

won't be doing anything even vaguely political. So we thought we'd take this final opportunity

0:44.6

to check in on the campaign trail. For the last six weeks, our team of political correspondents

0:51.3

have been touring the country on the battle buses, seeing up close

0:55.2

the efforts to secure your vote and the Sky TV login for number 10.

1:03.7

I'm Neil Patterson, and at this edition of the Daily, having been up close and personal, with

1:08.8

all the key players, we'll be asking our correspondence for their reflections on the campaign

1:14.0

and the moments that for them define the 2024 general election.

1:22.1

And we begin with the Liberal Democrats.

1:25.4

Matthew Thompson has been following them from Sky.

1:27.9

He speaks to us from the upper deck, I believe, of the Lib Dem battle bus.

1:32.3

Look, you've not been short of a stunt or two during this election.

1:36.2

I think it's fair to say, Matthew.

1:38.0

Run us through them, because I think I've actually lost count.

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