What REALLY happens on polling day?
Political Currency
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🗓️ 3 July 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
They think it’s all over… it is now! No really, that’s the actual line from the Conservative party as they send out the hardest worker of this campaign, Mel Stride, to concede a full 24 hours before voters go to the polls. Ed Balls and George Osborne question whether the move will just serve to put even more potential Tory voters off.
The winner might be considered a foregone conclusion at this stage - but the details are far from it, and Ed’s been swotting up on the ones to watch for early indications. If you’re planning an all-nighter, grab your popcorn and make some notes - you don’t want to be without the Balls election 2024 primer.
And, if you’ve ever wondered what candidates will be doing for the next 48 hours, Ed and George pull back the curtain on the highs and lows of a life-changing night.
Credit to Greg Birks for ‘I’m Just Ed’.
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, |
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| 0:16.0 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
| 0:26.0 | 2023. |
| 0:28.0 | B.com slash and not all. This episode is brought to you by G.S.K. |
| 0:35.0 | We're lucky to live in a time when many of us can access medicine when we become ill, |
| 0:38.5 | but even better than recovering from being unwell is not getting ill in the first place. |
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| 0:56.2 | or stopping chronic conditions from progressing to more serious complications. |
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| 1:09.6 | Visit gsk.com to learn more. So we're back but not on a Thursday this week but a day early it's Wednesday |
| 1:25.4 | tomorrow is polling day less than 24 hours before you can start to vote in person and |
| 1:31.2 | we thought that we'd get in with some final thoughts |
| 1:34.4 | before the election finally happens. Yes we will be back on Friday to talk about the new |
| 1:40.4 | Labour government. I'm giving up even pretending that that's not going to be |
| 1:44.7 | what happens. We did a very interesting thing, didn't we yesterday, Ed. We are two of the three people who will be |
| 1:51.8 | commenting on the election results on I TV all night with |
| 1:55.3 | Nicholas Sturgeon, our new friend and we were in the studio rehearsing all the camera angles |
| 2:01.5 | and the different scenarios. |
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