When will Sunak call the election?
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
It's 2024. (Almost certainly) election year. Parties are in election mode and the pressure is on the PM to demystify when he will call the public to the polls.
When will he? Why would earlier or later suit him? And will any date change the Tories' stuttering chances?
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Producer: Laura FitzPatrick
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.7 | It's a new year and it is almost certainly an election year. |
| 0:15.9 | And yet, even though we are just three days in, suddenly, psychologically, it feels different. |
| 0:22.2 | The fact that we are saying the election this year rather than next year has got everyone in Westminster |
| 0:28.9 | chattering away with one question on their lips. When will it be? |
| 0:34.1 | And of course, for Rishi Sunak, the decision is his. But he's got to be very careful that he doesn't get boxed in by Labour saying there's going to be an early election. |
| 0:46.1 | Because if he cancels it, it will look like he's running scared. So what's he going to do to keep his options open, but at the same time not allow himself to become a prisoner of the calendar? |
| 0:59.7 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:04.4 | The newsagents. |
| 1:06.4 | It's John. |
| 1:07.1 | It's Lewis. |
| 1:07.6 | And happy new year. |
| 1:08.5 | Happy new year. |
| 1:09.5 | It's like we've never been away. |
| 1:10.8 | We're back in our favourite little studio. |
| 1:13.0 | No, Emily, for the moment. |
| 1:14.3 | She'll be back at the beginning of next week. |
| 1:16.8 | Yes. |
| 1:17.1 | But we are going to crack on. |
| 1:18.6 | Because what you just said is so right. |
| 1:20.8 | It just feels like December the 30th, 2023, the election feels like a long way away. |
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