Are these the last six weeks of Rishi Sunak and the Tories?

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News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Nish and Coco bring you a hot off-the-press special look at the announcement of a UK general election. On Wednesday 22nd May - Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the next general election will be on Thursday 4th July 2024. It appeared to be a sudden decision that surprised even his own Conservative MPs. But this announcement brings a whole host of questions with it. What key issues will this election be fought on? Is the timing helpful to any party in particular? How will Sunak fare under the microscope? To answer those and many more - friend of the show Liz Bates makes an eager return. Alongside Nish and Coco - Liz discusses what drove Sunak to this announcement and whether Keir Starmer got something of a headstart on his campaign.

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0:00.0	Hi this is Pod Save the UK I'm Nishkamar and I'm Coco Khan and it is
0:08.2	finally it's election season we're joined by our friend of the show Liz Bates to find out why
0:14.9	Rishisunak pulled the trigger now. And later we'll hear from co-leader of the Green Party, Adrian Ramsey, alongside a
0:22.4	PS UK first. We will have an exclusive interview
0:24.8	with the government minister.
0:27.1	Over the next few weeks, I will fight for every vote. I will earn your trust and I will prove to you that only a conservative government led by me will not put our hard-earned economic stability at risk, can restore
0:46.7	pride and confidence in our country, and with a clear plan and bold action will deliver a secure future for you, your family and our United Kingdom.
0:59.0	Okay, that clip was from BBC News is Ritchie Sunach announcing the election and he announced it with all of the skill
1:06.2	and political acumen that he has displayed as Prime Minister, i.e. absolutely fuck all.
1:12.4	It was pouring with rain. The whole time I kept thinking for what reason would you A not do it in the house? B not have someone holding an umbrella over you. Maybe that would make him look two billionaire. Maybe that's why he's standing in the room. What does he think normal people do that we're just drenched all the time walking around?
1:30.0	There has been at some great expense to the taxpayer a press briefing room
1:35.5	Set up within 10 Downing Street that you would have thought I guess would be useful for this though there are some questions about the exact ethics of that because technically this is not a
1:45.1	prime minister's announcement it's technically a political announcement but at the same time there
1:50.7	surely has to be a better option I can't believe the options were
1:55.2	either you know exploiting the office or just standing in the rain it looked It looked he looked depressing. Also for a man who's meant to be some
2:05.9	sort of tech whiz, babe you know the apps now you know you can get some good apps they
2:09.7	tell you how many minutes it's gonna rain.. You know like it's just what are you using
2:13.8	we still on BBC weather hunt? What are we doing? So the way things played out
2:18.3	yesterday was there were rumors going round then by about three or four o'clock it
2:21.9	it had become clear that this is what the
2:23.2	5 p.m. announcement was going to be. The 5 p.m. announcement was held back
2:26.4	I guess because they were hoping the rain would clear and then in a display almost
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