Sunak goes down swinging

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🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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As the election race enters the final stretch PolHome’s editor Adam Payne and political and digital consultant Laura Dunn join host Alain Tolhurst to look at the final leaders’ debate, after Rishi Sunak came out swinging Wednesday night, what we can expect from the last week of campaigning before polling day, the latest on gambling-gate, as well as speaking to reporter Caitlin Doherty on the campaign trail in Devon. Later Alex Thomas from the Institute for Government, Sienna Rogers from The House magazine, and Baroness Kate Fall, David Cameron’s former deputy chief of staff, look at what Keir Starmer can expect in the first few hours and days of a potential Labour government, and we’ll have the latest in our Election Diaries project in partnership with ThinksInsight hearing from voters in key swing seats.

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Presented by Alain Tolhurst, and produced by Lulu Goad for Podot

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a podcast from Politics Home.
0:08.5	I'm your host, Alan Tollast, and as the election race enters the final stretch,
0:12.1	good look at the final leader's debate between Mushesunak and Kirsthama,
0:14.9	after the PM came out swinging Wednesday night,
0:17.5	what we can expect from the last week of campaigning before polling day,
0:20.5	the latest on Gambling Gate, as well as speaking to one last week of campaigning before polling day, the latest on
0:21.1	gambling gate, as well as speaking to one of our reporters out on the campaign trail, looking
0:25.6	what the first few hours and days of a potential Labour government might look like, and we'll
0:29.3	also have the latest on our election diaries project, hearing from voters in key swing seats.
0:33.8	So to start off and discuss how the main party's campaigns are going, I'm delighted to say I'm joined again by Paul Holmes editor, Adam Payne, as well as Laura Dunn, a political and digital consultant who advises senior Tory MPs.
0:45.1	So I'm going to start with you, Adam. It's been quite a quiet week in terms of the parties and their campaigns, but it was brought to life really by the final and probably the most interesting leaders debate.
0:54.9	I wish you seen that kind of really went for it, really, didn't he?
0:57.7	He did. I think it's felt quiet because as we approach the final stretch of this six-week campaign,
1:06.1	the opinion polls just haven't moved in a direction which, I mean, if anything, they've moved
1:13.8	slightly in favour of the Labour Party. They certainly haven't moved in favour of the Tory
1:17.9	party. And because of that, our sense of there being a contest has kind of faded away. The
1:24.4	result, the headline result feels close to inevitable. But you're right in
1:28.5	the TV debate we saw on the BBC on Wednesday night. We saw the prime minister in a very
1:34.5	combative mood. If he is going down, he's certainly going down swinging. And to me, Alan,
1:41.9	the debate, the format, how the two leaders tried to adapt to the format,
1:48.0	felt quite similar to the first debate we saw on ITV those weeks ago.
1:52.7	And by that, I mean that Kiyah Stama, he tried to give longer answers, longer explanations,
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