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i think of those speeches he did that went on for an hour. no note needing to go to the loo from the first second brave, brave men. anyway, let's not talk about the 2010 or 2015 elections. let's talk about the 2024 election. also, dharshini, we should just reveal how unglamorous life is as a journalist when you're in an election, cos we have quite a long conversation about whether to call this day one you know,... a secure future. deliver a secure future. that is the secure future that i'm working towards. change is hard. afairdeal... that's the fair deal that the - liberal democrats are fighting for. quite simply, we put scotland first to put scotland first. _ let's get out there - and put scotland first. if you want change, folks,

you've got to vote for it. vote for change. vote for reform uk. montage there shows you actually election campaigns aren't necessarily the most sophisticated thing. no. it's about finding your core message and then hammering it over and over again. and this is day, whatever it is, one or one day, you know. and they are, you've heard they're the key phrases that we're going to hear over and over and over again on the basis that most people, most of the time, are not paying much attention. so until you say it a million times, most people haven't heard it for a first time. so, you know, it's that classic line, isn't it, that politicians will use, particularly in election campaigns, that the point at which us lot as reporters are yawning or rolling our eyes isjust about the point when it mightjust start to, to use the phrase, cut through. so you have to ram home those messages. they all obviously fail the matthew parris test, which is how does it sound if you flip it? change, let'sjust keep everything exactly the same. let'sjust have everything falling apart. unfair deal, unfair deal.

although actually, like one of keir starmer�*s slogans from last week, which i've become slightly obsessed about, is on the economy. and he's his slogan is "stability is change", which to me does not sound like a very rousing or particularly grammatical phrase. it doesn't. but, you know, stability frankly counts... - i say that, by the way, - as someone who's perched on a booster cushion - to reach the microphone. so stability does matter. and that really goes to show that, i frankly, it's been a pants few years when it comes to prosperity. and you've got to _ acknowledge that somehow — and we're going to hear a lot about stability, . because realistically, _ when you look at the next few years, what is any party going - to realistically be able to offer, bearing in mind the state of the public finances, i bearing in mind we are probably| looking to cuts to public services the way the finances - are set up at the moment. to — guess what — i lay up the tax rises. so, you know, stability- at the moment probably feels like a realistic thing. but as you say, you know, we're at the beginning i

of a six—week campaign. it's not exactly exciting. so, nick, i maybe i was a bit naive. i knew the rwanda policy — the plan to take people who'd crossed the english channel and arrived in the country illegally, as the government would have it, under the new legislation, to then send them to rwanda to be processed in the rwandan asylum system, never to return to the uk. i knew that would come up and i knew that the tories wanted to be a dividing line. i've been quite surprised to see just how dominant the rwanda dividing line has been. well, yes, and obviously rishi sunak is absolutely determined to make it a dividing line. but then he made that very interesting admission on the today programme this morning that of course, no flights will take off before the general election. now, you could argue that that's his choice. he could have called this election in six months' time, by which time under the time frame of the legislation, lots of flights should have taken off, have taken off, and he didn't. he chose to hold this election before it's physically possible for any flights to take off. the way he frames that is, well, this is a choice about the future. you vote for me as prime minister and you will get the flights. but what some right members of the right

of the conservative party are saying is no, he's had to cut and run now because the flights will never take off. they will never take off because, as they say, they will get caught up in the courts because you did not take the radical action that they said needed to be taken to get us out of the european court. dividing line is starker with the anticipation of a potential policy versus labour saying they would call it than either and then, of course, there is the prospect were labour to win and collate that after all of the stuff we've talked about around miranda, the stuff in the supreme court, the stuff in the commons in the last few months that it never happens. yeah. not a single flight goes. and then this sort of reminds me of... i mean, i always love talking about the arcane parliamentary stuff and we've got this period called wash up now, which is where the political parties decide what bits of legislation that haven't been passed yet

are going to be saved in time for parliament dissolving on friday. and one of those things is rishi sunak�*s plan to progressively increase the age at which you can buy cigarettes, which they call creating a smoke free generation, cos ultimately, you'll have a whole a whole generation who can never buy cigarettes. now, that was touted by rishi sunak as one of his big ideas when he launched the election. but because of the wash up process and the pressure of time, he's not going to get that legislation through parliament by the weekend. so, again, that will be another thing that he's promising to deliver if he's re—elected. and this is where you end up with politics on an issue where there isn't actually widespread disagreement. there are some there are some libertarian conservatives who don't like the idea of the state intervening and stopping people being able to buy cigarettes when others across an arbitrary age gap can. but even though there is pretty widespread support for it, in order to get stuff sorted in this wash—up period, which is trying to do stuff at incredible pace

up against a deadline, you've got to have party party cooperation, rishi sunak wants this to happen. so do the parties. but rishi sunak has made it quite a big thing of, you know, his legacy, a kind of thing that he really believes in. and of course, if it falls, which looks pretty likely now, yes, he can put it in the manifesto, and i think he would. but so can other parties. and if it's a labour government, the other side of the election, they could then press ahead and do it. and it's their idea, then, not rishi sunak�*. and i bumped into one very senior tory on the right of the party, a very senior former cabinet minister, who has led the fight against that legislation. they were beaming. they were delighted that it hadn't been confirmed, but because it wasn't on the list of sort of carry over bills that they thought had died, they were very, very happy. because of course, the opposition to that was all within the conservative party. but, yeah, it'sjust another one of those things where it's a promise that rishi sunak

is making as opposed to a thing he's delivered that people can. and it does all get back to the choice. rishi sunak did not need to hold the election now. he could have kept going for another six months. he could have got this onto the statute book and he chose to go now. dharshini, what did you think about the choice to go on the day when the inflation figures came out? because it wasn't a it wasn't as simple as like, oh, the inflation figures are amazing. it was like they're ok, but... they're kind of good - enough to scrape through. i and obviously, they weren't thati good that the percentage chances, for example, of a rate cut injune ahead of yesterday's _ inflation figures, 50—50. now it's about 6%, according to most economists. - they're now saying we may not get one even in august. - so, in that sense, maybe you're thinking, ok, i i'll preempt the fact that rates. aren't going to come down over the summer if that's the case. but yet you do feel that people, as we've been talking _ about time and time again, just aren't feeling - that turnaround as yet. they're not feeling i the inflection point. and by the way, i don't buy either this idea that they didn't wait i until the autumn because they may i not have been room for tax cuts, i because smoke and mirrors, there's i all sorts of things you can do. i you need a tiny changel

in our prospects and our | interest rateexpectations and bingol — you've got some extra cash to play with and that could have quite easily happen. i so, yeah, the numbers alone doesn't reallyjustify it. - there's one thing that a lot of conservatives were saying yesterday when they just were astonished that the prime minister was going for this election. a lot of them were saying to me, what's going on? and what they were saying is, i think one of the reasons he's gone is that there's a sweet spot that basically with inflation, it's not going to get any better than this. there's a chance that it might actually go up. there's a chance that we may not say interest rate cuts in the next few months and it may not get any better. so cut and run now and run now. well, the chances are actually in the short term, it about theresa may in 2017, she became very hamstrung because of the timing issue. why are you doing it now? and she never adequately answered that question, which meant that a into her time to actually campaign on other things. do you think the timing issue isjust an issue for these first few days? well, i think you're right, because conservative mps were just, "we thought when you said the second half of the year that

you meant the autumn," and on newsnight on tuesday. and i basically said there are massive rumours that the prime minister is going to call an election tomorrow, wednesday, which he did, and that july the fourth was being talked about. and then the next day had all these ministers come here, "what's going on in my party?" he literallyjust couldn't believe it. and theyjust thought that they'd have more time, that inflation would come down and all that sort of stuff, and all that sort of stuff. but with good reason for them to be thinking that at that point, because the vast majority of the sort of mood music coming out from all corners of government until it wasn't was pointing prime minister, because you do have this power — i mean, technically it's the king, but it's basically your power to decide your prerogative, isn't it? _ since we got rid of the fixed term parliament, you basically get to choose when the election is. and what you've got to be really careful is that the timing of the election, it's not too obvious that you're doing it in your interest. so, when gordon brown toyed with the idea of an election in october 2007, he was clearly doing it in his interest. when theresa may went in 2017, two years after the general election, in whose interest are you doing this?

and i think the problem that rishi sunak had, which i'm not sure he ever realised, that had he gone beyond the summer, then there have only been three times in the last 50 years when an election has been held outside the april to sort of summer window. and there's been really good reasons. there were emergency. there were special reasons. and i always thought the problem that he would have is if he went beyond the summer, it'd be a bit weird. aren't there normal times? why are you doing it now? i suppose the mild counter to that in terms of the comparison with 2017 is that we're in the last few months of a parliament as opposed to going two years in halfway through. and so you're deciding between a handful of months as opposed to deciding to go as gordon brown might have done three years early or as theresa may did. it's a similar kind of three years early. but, i mean, definitely in the minds of those who eventually came to the view around rishi sunak to go when they did, was that perception, that sense that there would be a perception politically powerful, even if constitutionally kind of redundant, that waiting until the autumn

would be clinging on. chris, we did an episode of newscast, the podcast on bbc sounds this morning. and yes, as we were recording it, nigel farage made his not unexpected announcement that he wouldn't be standing as a candidate for the reform party. i notice he's now since put out a video where he's done a classic nigel farage thing — to avoid, i think, accusations of being a bottler. he said, "i've got one more political card "to play in my lifetime. "i ain't playing it now." so, that thing of like teasing everyone by saying, "ah, i'm sitting this one out, but not because i'm a busted flush." you see, for me, the more interesting thing with nigel farage and we don't yet have an answer to this, is not whether or not he decides to run in a particular seat, which it struck me was always

relatively unlikely, just because he'd have to spend a lot of time there. and it would be hard cos it always is for smaller parties to win first past the post elections. it's more the bit in that statement where we talked about getting involved a bit. what does a bit actually amount to that for me is the interesting thing, because if he decided to well, you know, how that manifests itself will be significant, i think, in terms of how much concern to put it in his mildest reform can put under conservative candidates in places where they think reform might do sufficiently well, that it could be the difference between a conservative candidate winning and a labour candidate winning. interesting. in that statement, there was something that he said which suggests that there was something he was going to do more than a bit, quite a lot, and that is involvement in the united states election. now, one of his mates told me — who knows whether this is true — that donald trump has offered nigel farage a job and that he is focused on that. and for donald trump, donald trump thinks that nigel farage is a really significant figure. donald trump's been quite open that it was when the brexit referendum was rough, was won —

and there's an argument that that would never have happened had it not been for nigel farage when that was won. that was when donald trump thought he could win because in his mind, brexit was about breaking the establishment and that was he was about. and he thinks nigel farage is a very significant figure and nigel farage must feel that there's quite an audience out there in the united states, kind ofjob now that's speaking well, obviously. donald trump is not able to appoint nigel farage, the uk ambassador to the united states. that's one. we call them the point, which is one job that nigel farage would rather like to have. so, what are you going to do - about the existing challenges before you slap on the stuff on top? and i think that's- a really important one. and, you know, it's going to be really difficult -

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window into how the election feels for a whole load of people in lots of different places.— of different places. basically, i think what _ of different places. basically, i think what important - of different places. basically, i think what important to i of different places. basically, i- think what important to understand is that— think what important to understand is that this — think what important to understand is that this isn't a polling device. what _ is that this isn't a polling device. what i'm — is that this isn't a polling device. what i'm using them to do is to investigate, interrogate, reveal what _ investigate, interrogate, reveal what different people are being served — what different people are being served up. like my feet already, i've bought — served up. like my feet already, i've bought those memes and videos, people's— i've bought those memes and videos, people's hot takes —— my feed. it's different— people's hot takes —— my feed. it's different what you're getting. and this is a way _ different what you're getting. and this is a way of— different what you're getting. fific this is a way of getting visibility. to the falls to be geographical quiz will you can use a vpn which allows you to locate them in the places that they are. they're not deceptive in any way. that they are. they're not deceptive in an wa . , ., that they are. they're not deceptive in any way-— in any way. they are totally private but they do — in any way. they are totally private but they do allow _ in any way. they are totally private but they do allow me _ in any way. they are totally private but they do allow me to _ in any way. they are totally private but they do allow me to feed i in any way. they are totally private

but they do allow me to feed the i but they do allow me to feed the algorithm. i like content, i watch some _ algorithm. i like content, i watch some videos, alljoin groups. that allows— some videos, alljoin groups. that allows me — some videos, alljoin groups. that allows me to indicate through the platforms where they are. i would be interested to hear what's happening on his ram in particular because i like internet because it's fun. it's pictures of people's holidays and nice cakes. i would never want to find out what's happening on instagram to get news. i will be intrigued to see how the undercover voters might potentially feel about their bakery feeds being interrupted by an advert from prime ministerial candidate. and interrupted by an advert from prime ministerial candidate.— ministerial candidate. and i'll be intri . ued ministerial candidate. and i'll be intrigued if— ministerial candidate. and i'll be intrigued if you _ ministerial candidate. and i'll be intrigued if you remember i ministerial candidate. and i'll be intrigued if you remember the i intrigued if you remember the password login for the law... brute password login for the law... we mi . ht password login for the law... we might have the same one. i'm not telling! _ might have the same one. i'm not

telling! one of the most... i think one thing — telling! one of the most... i think one thing that will be the most revealing — one thing that will be the most revealing as we talk a lot about political — revealing as we talk a lot about political advertising, and that's realty— political advertising, and that's really interesting. what's especially interesting and hard to investigate is the kind of content that comes from supporters and fans of political _ that comes from supporters and fans of political parties, the come from the individual person that might make _ the individual person that might make something in their bedroom. come _ make something in their bedroom. come across that content to investigate a bit more and figure out where — investigate a bit more and figure out where it's come from and who is being _ out where it's come from and who is being exposed to it. i often use a comparison — being exposed to it. i often use a comparison of... it would be like if you couldn't — comparison of... it would be like if you couldn't be running on parliament, you could dojob, so i have _ parliament, you could dojob, so i have to _ parliament, you could dojob, so i have to build crosstalk i'm already surprised about the content coming from the parties. i'm not going to put a number on it. there was a new video from the parties that it feels like every ten minutes, they must have so much

content. i suppose they can because knocking up a quick video of a party leader and one of their own speeches and a bit of music or of quite rubbish memes — particularly on the conservative party side. that is cheap. conservative party side. that is chea -. . conservative party side. that is chea. . , conservative party side. that is chea. ., , ., cheap. that is boom time for videographers. _ cheap. that is boom time for videographers. your - cheap. that is boom time for videographers. your skill- cheap. that is boom time for i videographers. your skill would cheap. that is boom time for - videographers. your skill would have only found employment in the past and tv companies. now, and all sorts of spaces, where having those high—end video skills to tell the stories as they see it of organisations or x or y, crucial. the dynamic is... if you think of the changes— the dynamic is... if you think of the changes of the lance leg —— landscape, _ the changes of the lance leg —— landscape, i've seen so many things unfotd _ landscape, i've seen so many things unfotd on— landscape, i've seen so many things unfold on tiktok, so

my ai generated content, could that be popping up on people's feeds. let's _ be popping up on people's feeds. let's give — be popping up on people's feeds. let's give you something original and offers— let's give you something original and offers you analysis and insight so that— and offers you analysis and insight so that you're not just saying something bonkers is happening. mariana. — something bonkers is happening. mariana, thank you very much and good luck with your many, many, many, many efforts. parliament is about to shut up shop. the many, many efforts. parliament is about to shut up shop.— many, many efforts. parliament is about to shut up shop. the people we talk about, mps, _ about to shut up shop. the people we talk about, mps, are _ about to shut up shop. the people we talk about, mps, are not _ about to shut up shop. the people we talk about, mps, are not mps - about to shut up shop. the people we talk about, mps, are not mps any i talk about, mps, are not mps any longer. as of the end of tomorrow, they will go. you'll no longer be mp. there is always a prime minister, there is always a new government. there will be members of parliament. , , . ., parliament. irrespective of the result, there's _ parliament. irrespective of the result, there's a _ parliament. irrespective of the result, there's a lot _ parliament. irrespective of the result, there's a lot of- parliament. irrespective of the result, there's a lot of people | parliament. irrespective of the i result, there's a lot of people who

we've got used to texting over the years who will no longer be years. —— no longer be here. years who will no longer be years. -- no longer be here.— -- no longer be here. loads and loads, hundreds _ -- no longer be here. loads and loads, hundreds of _ -- no longer be here. loads and loads, hundreds of people i -- no longer be here. loads and loads, hundreds of people who i -- no longer be here. loads and i loads, hundreds of people who call themselves mps. they will stop doing so when prominent evolves and they won't be mps again because they're standing down. sort of a changing of the guard personnel wise. irrespective of the outcome. i know ou have irrespective of the outcome. i know you have to — irrespective of the outcome. i know you have to hit _ irrespective of the outcome. i know you have to hit the _ irrespective of the outcome. i know you have to hit the road _ irrespective of the outcome. i know you have to hit the road soon. i'm l you have to hit the road soon. i'm lookin: you have to hit the road soon. i“n looking forward to it. you have to hit the road soon. i'm looking forward to it. i _ you have to hit the road soon. i'm looking forward to it. i hope i you have to hit the road soon. i'm looking forward to it. i hope it's i looking forward to it. i hope it's sticks and _ looking forward to it. i hope it's sticks and carrots _ looking forward to it. i hope it's sticks and carrots and _ looking forward to it. i hope it's sticks and carrots and not i looking forward to it. i hope it's| sticks and carrots and not pants. say goodbye to... sticks and carrots and not pants. say goodbye to. . ._ say goodbye to... laughter you have _ say goodbye to... laughter you have your _ say goodbye to... laughter you have your own _ say goodbye to... laughter you have your own hard i say goodbye to... laughter you have your own hard gas, | say goodbye to... laughter - you have your own hard gas, mariana! we'll be back with another one —— your own podcast. hello there. conditions look a lot better

for the next couple of days. we should see more sunshine around, lighter winds, so it should feel a bit warmer as well. friday, it's an improving picture — we should see sunshine breaking through across many areas. and for most areas, it should be dry, just a few showers across northern areas. now, areas of low pressure is continuing to weaken, and the rain is fizzling out, so there'll be barely anything on this weather fronts across scotland, northern england, as we move through friday morning. should see plenty of sunshine developing across southern areas, and some holes appearing in that cloud further north. just the odd shower dotted around, but many places will stay dry. temperatures responding, as well — lighter winds, more sunshine, 19 celsius, maybe 20 celsius, in the south, high teens further north. as we head through friday night, it looks like skies will clear pretty widely, so it will turn chillier. just the odd shower across scotland, a bit more cloud here — so i think double figure—values in much of scotland and northern ireland, single figures for large parts of england and wales. so, into the bank holiday weekend, it's starting off fine and settled on saturday for most areas, and then, we'll start to see sunshine and showers through sunday

and bank holiday monday. we've got this weather front encroaching in slowly during the weekend — encroaching in slowly but ahead of it, plenty of sunshine around. will be a chilly start, little bit of mist and fog around. this feature moving in from the continent could bring some cloud and rains east anglia, eastern england, and then, later in the day, this weather front moves its way into southwest england. but plenty of sunshine across the country, just the chance of an odd shower. a much warmer 20 celsius for many areas, up to 22 in the southeast. now, as we head into sunday, this weather front starts to cross the country, destabilising the atmosphere. it'll be one of sunshine and showers, i think — and through the afternoon, some of these showers could turn out to be heavy and thundery, some local torrential downpours in places. temperature—wise, because a bit more cloud around and some showers, i think we're looking at highs of 18—19 celsius. and then, through bank holiday monday, again, sunshine and showers — probably the heaviest of the showers on monday will be across the northern half of the country, a bit more of a breeze as well coming in from the west.

so, temperatures 16—17 celsius i think for many places. and then, for the upcoming week, i think it stays fairly unsettled — low pressure always close by, showers or longer spells of rain. however, there will still be some decent spells of sunshine at times. take care.

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