The Ultimate Guide to the local elections

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Today, four of the BBC’s top political brains preview the local elections coming up on May 2.

Adam and Chris are joined by Alex Forsyth and Henry Zeffman to chat about what they will be looking out for in the lead-up to the local elections, how the results could shape the political landscape for the general election and nerd out about a weekend of “rolling psephological fun”.

Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Gray with Miranda Slade. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Okay, you lot, what's that, what's that paperwork you've got in front of you?
0:08.7	He heavily highlighted.
0:09.7	Well, I was just looking at Alex's, um thinking what's Alex got you know like really
0:14.9	look over at school at somebody else's work and then I thought hang on a minute it
0:18.8	is the same thing I've got.
0:21.0	Penry I noticed you've just got a classic smartphone.
0:24.4	Henry's very digital.
0:25.4	Is it?
0:27.4	No, I'm too new here.
0:28.2	I didn't know where to get the crib sheet, that's why.
0:30.0	Although I am lacking Highlighter.
0:31.4	I've just got...
0:32.4	Biry. And then run out of time. To Pete... Although I am lacking Highlighter. I've just got... Highro.
0:33.0	I've just got...
0:32.0	High
0:35.2	I've highlighted the first page and then run out of time.
0:34.7	To Peter Barnes, who is our supremo of elections and politics analysis, has compiled a bit of a
0:42.2	crib sheet on the numbers going into the local elections and
0:46.0	Alex and I will be leaning on it heavily.
0:51.0	And that's because we're going to do a podcast about the upcoming local elections
0:54.5	although it's not just local elections they're happening on May the 2nd but this
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