Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a podcast from Politics Home.

I'm your host, Alan Tollust, and this week we've got a special episode looking ahead

24 in politics as we enter a big election year here in Westminster.

We'd be to give you an insider's guide on what to look out for, which will be the crunch

issues, and where the race to number 10 will be won and lost.

I'm delighted to be joined by two of the lobby's finest, returning guest, Natasha Clark,

LBC's political editor, and so he grew involved, incoming political correspondent at the

Independent.

And alongside them, my colleague here at Paul Home, our own political editor, Adam Payne.

So starting with you, Adam, as we go into 2024, has said the kind of election year.

From the kind of the conservatives, we've looked at in the last couple of podcasts that kind of Russia to the next difficult year in kind of 2020-23 and how that's kind of gone for him.

2024, we're expecting, I think, kind of another reset, potentially a big kind of keynote

speech from Sunak.

What are we kind of going to expect from that?

And where is he going to kind of try and push the Conservatives to try and claw back

some of this polling lead has not been able to take away from Labour so far?

Thanks, Alan.

It's nice to be back on the podcast after a hiatus.

Well, you said it's election year. Of course,

it could be January 2025 election. I mean, we'll probably get onto this later. I find that

unlikely. I hope not. Campaign on Christmas Day will be very fun. Yeah. I mean, well, if the

problems of the Tory party is nobody likes them and then they make people campaign over Christmas,

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