When Pigs Fly (General Election 2024)

Podlitical

BBC

Government, News

4.6 • 157 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

How can politicians explain nuance in numbers and sell "sort of" answers in an election? The team look at the first general election debate between Labour's Keir Starmer and the Conservative's Rishi Sunak, and the controversial tax figures quoted by Sunak that Labour claim are "lies", discussing how politicians can sell nuanced or complicated positions when in a debate or on the doorstep, and how even fudgy figures can be electoral wins if enough people remember them. Also, there's been controversy as Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross announces he is standing to be an MP, and Diane Abbott once again finds herself in the headlines as it's revealed the Conservatives accepted money from donor Frank Hester after a previous row where he made alleged racist comments about Abbott.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds
0:02.4	You're listening to BBC Scotland
0:09.7	Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast
0:15.8	that brings you an inside look at the big stories coming out of Holyroods and Westminster.
0:20.8	It's three minutes past two on
0:22.6	Thursday the 6th of June.
0:24.6	I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow.
0:26.6	And today I'm joined by. I'm Phil Sim,
0:28.4	a journalist based at the Scottish Parliament.
0:30.4	And I'm Raj Sheepson, do you as
0:32.1	a journalist based in Westminster. I don't know what I was
0:34.5	about to say. That is so funny that you said that
0:37.6	because I was just thinking, thank goodness,
0:39.3	that the name of the day
0:41.0	and the date and the month
0:43.2	are all written down for me today
0:44.7	because I have got not a clue
0:46.5	what day of the week it is, what time it is,
0:49.4	what year it is. In an election,
0:51.2	it all just blurs, doesn't it?
0:52.7	And now you don't know what your job is, so that's also...
0:55.5	But yeah, it's stumbled over my job, yeah.
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