Your election questions answered
The News Agents
Global
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🗓️ 23 May 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Each Thursday during the election campaign we are answering your questions.
Do MPs get paid after Parliament breaks up? Why do majorities shrink so fast these days? What is purdah and what’s Farage up to?
Later, Salman Rushdie talks to Emily about the knife attack that nearly killed him and the premonition he had that it would happen. We discuss censorship, hate, Gaza and Iran. And whether the attack has changed his political leanings.
The best producer we could have asked for!: Laura FitzPatrick
Editor: Tom Hughes
Senior Producer: Gabriel Radus
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
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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. |
| 0:11.6 | Every week in the countdown to the election on July 4th, we are going to be receiving and trying to answer your questions. |
| 0:20.6 | We're going to call it Q&A Thursday or |
| 0:23.3 | Q&A Thursday. |
| 0:26.5 | There's no difference between what you just said. |
| 0:28.7 | Thank you very much. Did you not get much sleep last night? Because just sat a bit heady? |
| 0:34.2 | Six weeks to go. Six weeks of this to go. But every Thursday, we will be trying |
| 0:38.2 | to answer your questions. And as part of this pre-introduction, Jess wants to know who will be this |
| 0:44.9 | year's Portillo moment or will there be many? It's Jacob Rees-Marg. 100%. Jacob Rees-Mogg in North East Somerset. |
| 0:56.0 | I don't think it's going to be Portillo. |
| 0:57.9 | I think it's going to be Portilli. |
| 0:59.9 | I think there's going to be about 11. |
| 1:02.8 | Oh, sorry. |
| 1:03.2 | So it's the plural. |
| 1:04.9 | Oh, the plural. |
| 1:06.0 | It's like pasta. |
| 1:08.1 | Yeah, I think we could see about 10 senior secretaries of state, senior cabinet |
| 1:13.5 | ministers lose their seats in a way, I guess comfort in numbers, but I think it's probably |
| 1:20.2 | going to be a pretty high-risk night. Well, now we've pluralised Portillo. We can get on with |
| 1:25.2 | the main show. Welcome to the news agents. |
| 1:31.4 | The Newsagents. |
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