Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?
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Why are public services a top priority in the UK elections?
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Hello, we've got another episode of ElectionCast for you, which means it's another outing for Remoter Voter. This is where we hear from you why you cannot vote in person in either England, Scotland or Wales on the 7th of May. Eleanor in Scotland says, I've got an entry for Remoter Voter. It's the most boring reason possible. Let's see. But rural voters need representation in this. And we've had this one from somebody who has not shared their name. They say my remoter voter submission is this. I will be in Greece with a group of around 100 quizzers for an annual event known as Greek Geek Week. We will be spending a week or so playing various quiz formats such as buzzer quizzing, written papers and the 3K quiz run where you have to do penalty runs for wrong answers.
All of this will be in lovely sunny surroundings, mixing in some sightseeing and beach time too, I am sure. Where is my invitation to Greek Geek Week? Although I suppose you knew that I'd be busy because it's elections. So actually, maybe that's why you didn't invite me. I am available to participate virtually, though. And I'll be participating in full in this episode of ElectionCast. Newscast.
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What impact will nationalist parties have on Westminster?
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Hello, it's Adam in the newscast slash election cast studio.
And it's Alex in the makeshift home election cast studio.
And it's James in the lovely newscast Glasgow studio.
And it's Felicity in the Cardiff newsroom.
standing up in the middle of your office, whereas we were all in our very bespoke studios. Right, I've got one more remote voter for you all. Mark says, hello, newscast. I'm not a current remote voter, but five years ago, I was taken into hospital a week before the election for emergency heart surgery. It was planned surgery, but it kept getting delayed because of COVID and the lack of intensive care beds. The surgery was very long. I ended up having a stroke and was unable to walk or speak. I had no visitors because of COVID. On the sixth day in intensive care, I FaceTimed my husband and whispered, get me a proxy vote. Now, I lived in Sussex and had the surgery in London, so it wasn't really a huge distance that wins any tickets for Castfest as the remotest voter, but the barriers were significant.
So well done, Mark, for your commitment to democracy and hope you are feeling much better than you did five years ago. Right. Let's talk about the elections in Scotland, Wales and England. Alex, the story we've all been covering as political journalists, though, is Keir Starmer and the effect on his premiership of the whole Mandelson story. Do you think that is playing out on the campaign trail in the locals?
I mean, totally, that is the massive dominant story in Westminster. And it's always really hard to assess in any kind of like, you know, scientific sense how much impact that will or won't have on the campaign trail. But there's one person who certainly seems to think it's having an impact. And that's the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, because he gave an interview to the FT in which he said he thinks his party risks being, in his word, stonked. during these elections. And he put that in large part down to what he called the omni shambles around this whole process of Peter Mandelson's appointment and then everything we've seen since around the vesting process. And his argument was that that makes it hard to talk about on the doorstep with voters
What he says are, in his view, the good things that the Labour Party is doing.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why are public services a top priority in the UK elections?
0:00–2:34
2
What impact will nationalist parties have on Westminster?
2:34–5:40
3
How is Keir Starmer's leadership affecting Labour's campaign?
5:40–9:50
4
What role do local issues like potholes play in elections?
9:50–14:54
5
How is the NHS performing in the context of the elections?
14:54–18:49
6
What are the implications of potential coalitions in Scotland?
18:49–23:13
7
How does tactical voting influence the election landscape?
23:13–28:10
8
What are the latest developments from the Welsh Liberal Democrats?
28:10–43:23