live now to joe twyman, the co—founder of deltapoll. what are the polls looking like and what do you make of this decision, this announcement, not a specific announcement but a hint on the timing of the election? the timing announcement doesn't really surprise me and the reason it doesn't surprise me is because of what the polls are showing. conservatives have not been ahead in a published opinion poll since december 2021. and they haven't been within double digits of labour, sorry, single digit of labour since september 2022 so it has been a long time since the gap has been even reasonably close between the two main parties. i think if significant progress had been made on the five pledges that were mentioned, and if they are necessarily resonated with they are necessarily resonated with the public, then we perhaps might have seen a more bullish approach to a may election. that it is, when you look at data from us and others, you will see that the public genuinely believes those pledges have been missed and perhaps only one or perhaps

live now to joe twyman, the co—founder of deltapoll.differences between the main leaders at the moment, rifihi on the differences between the main leaders at the moment,— leaders at the moment, rishi sunak has his five — leaders at the moment, rishi sunak has his five pages _ leaders at the moment, rishi sunak has his five pages and _ leaders at the moment, rishi sunak has his five pages and keir- leaders at the moment, rishi sunak has his five pages and keir starmer| has his five pages and keir starmer has his five pages and keir starmer has the emissions, so how do they play with voters? —— pledges and keir starmer has his missions. in terms of overall ratings but also specific attitude in terms of the people and who they trust, it is not great news for either leader. keir starmer is on a net approval rating of —3, slightly more people think he is doing a bad job than a good job, and that might not sound great but by historical standards it is not bad, and a lot better than the rating of —25 that rishi sunak is on, when you ask people