Henry Zeffman
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1,893 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 13 Sep
Henry Zeffman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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what he aspires for his government to attempt to achieve legislatively, i.e.
new laws, in the next parliamentary session, using the full force, if you like, of what the Prime Minister has at his disposal to say, basically, in that scenario, here comes the sort of relaunch, this is what it looks like in its next iteration, if he's there to try and deliver it.
Yeah, but a bit of summer over the weekend.
Yes, I mean, you've got a rolling election period for election nerds, and I suspect there's one or two of them in this room.
I don't think we're alone, Henry.
So there's the overnight results that will happen Thursday into Friday, but that's a relatively small proportion overall.
The real election night, in the way that we think of it in a general election, where all of the action comes overnight, the real election night is actually during the day on Friday.
So you can experience the election night having actually gone to bed.
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If you so choose.
You could do the whole hog and stay up all night and then all day and then all of Friday night and into Saturday, which is probably not wise.
But Friday will be the day of rolling results.
We'll wake up with a sense on the Friday morning, in England in particular,
how well or poorly the parties have done, at least in the places that are counting overnight.
But there'll be a rolling sense of results during the day on Friday, and in particular Wales and Scotland, as well as English local authorities, which will start painting a picture.
And then the political leaders will be reacting in real time to those results as they...
as they come, and then into the weekend and more analysis and all the rest of it, but MPs won't be obliged to be back at Westminster for a couple of days after that.
Of course, that doesn't stop plotting, and of course, lots of MPs and councillors and former councillors and former MSPs and et cetera, et cetera,
will have loads of encounters with microphones when they've not had much sleep, when they're feeling fraught and anxious, or in contrast, full of celebration and excitement for those who are winning.
And that's when you often get as close to the kind of authentic
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