Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a podcast for Politics Home with me, Alan Tolhurst.

This week we've got a special festive episode featuring the biggest political moments of 2024,

as we look back on a historical and tumultuous year dominated by Labour's landslide election victory

and the fallout from the first change in government since 2010. We're going to discuss everything from Liz Trust losing her seat,

to Sue Gray's defenestation, farmer protests, Donald Trump's return to power,

and Ed Davey falling off a paddleboard.

I'm delighted to be welcoming returning guests and big-time friend of the pod,

James Hill from a spectator,

as well as three of the finest poll home reporters

and could scrounge up at short notice.

Sobby Crowther, Tom Scottson, making a podcast debut, Matilda Martin.

Yeah, I'm going to try and cover the kind of the big moments of 2024. I think this year started, the kind of the first big moment was Rishi Sunak saying that his working assumption

was that the general election would take place in the second half of the year, which I think he ended up just about managing to cover. But obviously, he announced that kind of

famous announcement in the rain. Tilda, I'll start with you. Just talk us through the kind of that

kind of that, like pretty the defining image, I think, of Sunnix Premiership is the moment where he announced

that the election was coming. Just talk us through what happened on that day. Yeah. So I think it's one of those things where there

had been a lot of rumours start of the year that Sunat was about to call an election and every time

and it almost worked out like a bit of a cry wolf moment. Because I think that morning everyone was

like, oh, it's not it's not going to happen. Yeah and then i think that we had that morning we had the

confirmation that annual inflation will fall into its lowest rate in three years and maybe it was

the case that he just thought oh fantastic i'm gonna i'm gonna jump on this and go with this um but yeah

like you like you said um the announcement came in the afternoon very much in in the pouring rain um

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