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Coffee House Shots

Why has the election been called now?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Politics, Government, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Less than 24 hours after Rishi Sunak's surprise election announcement, we look ahead to the parties' campaigns. What has been the fall out? How have Labour responded to the shock news? And why didn't Rishi have an umbrella?

James Heale is joined by Isabel Hardman and former Labour adviser John McTernan to discuss.

Produced by Patrick Gibbons.

Transcript

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forward slash voucher. Hello and welcome to Coffee House shots. I'm James Heel and I'm joined today about spectators Isabel Hardman and John Witten in the former of his owner Tony Blair.

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Now Isabelle, yesterday on Coffey House shots we talked about,

0:36.0

which is the next announcement and what the Tory is hoping to achieve.

0:38.0

What do you think of Labour's response thus far?

0:40.0

Kie Kistama's speech yesterday, very much talking about Tory chaos, but emphasizing a change message as well.

0:45.2

Yes, I mean Labour have been asking for an election for quite some time, so I think if they were to complain that this had been

0:51.7

sprung on them as a surprise it would be

0:53.2

slightly hypocritical and as soon as the rumors started to crystallize into clarity

0:59.2

that we were going to get an election announcement yesterday evening

1:02.3

neighbor was saying that they were ready whenever an election

1:05.0

was saying that they were ready whenever an election was. And then we had the Starmer speech yesterday evening.

1:09.0

And again, Starmer has obviously been out and about today responding to and launching Labour's election

1:16.0

message and I think it's interesting that he has been really kind of capitalizing on one of

1:21.8

the early admissions that Sun Yuck has had to make,

1:24.8

which is that Rwanda is obviously not happening. And the Prime Minister has had to say,

1:30.7

you know, the flights would take off if I was reelected

1:34.0

Prime Minister.

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Now obviously not going to take off in an election campaign

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