Electioncast: What’s Happening In England?

选举播报:英格兰发生了什么?

Newscast

2026-05-01

30 分钟
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Today, we look at the local authority elections in England. Adam, Chris and Alex explore the geography of the elections and who might do well where, the race for London’s councils and the challenges facing each of the parties as the campaigns enter their final week. You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://bbc.in/newscastdiscord Get in touch with Newscast by emailing newscast@bbc.co.uk or send us a WhatsApp on +44 0330 123 9480. New episodes released every day. If you're in the UK, for more News and Current Affairs podcasts from the BBC, listen on BBC Sounds: https://bbc.in/4guXgXd Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. The presenter was Adam Fleming. It was made by Anna Harris with Shiler Mahmoudi. The social producer was Gabriel Purcell-Davis. The technical producers were Mike Regaard and Stephen Bailey. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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  • And I'm Bob Garfield.

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  • Chris, welcome to ElectionCast.

  • Well, thank you for having me.

  • This is great to be back on a pod called ElectionCast.

  • What a great idea.

  • I mean, you've been on every episode of Newscast for like the last 200 episodes, so it's not really that different.

  • Good to be back.

  • It means you get to hear Remota Voter.

  • Yes, my favourite.

  • So the most recent Remota Voter we had was somebody in Geelong in Australia.

  • And I said, well, you know what?

  • You don't have to be tens of thousands of kilometres or miles away from the UK to be part of it.

  • You can be just down the end of the road.