Electioncast: The Mega May Run In

选举报道:五月大幕拉开

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2026-05-03

42 分钟
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Today, we look at the biggest set of elections in the UK since the 2024 General Election. Laura and Paddy run through what the polls tell us, how insiders are feeling, and the challenges each of the parties face in different parts of Britain. Political correspondent Joe Pike joins to help, as well as reveal the insights you can gather from looking inside a communal bin. 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 presenters were Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O'Connell. It was made by Chris Flynn and Adam Chowdhury. The social producer was Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Michael Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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  • Laura is clutching some books that look like old photo albums.

  • They are old photo albums from the 1990s.

  • We have to find them on eBay.

  • What's in them?

  • Do you really want to know?

  • You look like you've just raided the stationery cupboard at school.

  • I'm so excited.

  • So these are my election flippers.

  • Right.

  • And I have an amazing producer who very, very,

  • very kindly compiles all these for me so I can look like I know what I'm talking about on Thursday and Friday night.

  • Inside.

  • Are all my notes about all the different constituencies and councils in the country.

  • So what's the colour coding?

  • There's two blue, two red.

  • So because the elections are mega maze, we 've been saying for months,

  • which marvellously other people are now calling it,

  • there are going to be a set of elections which will have the results coming in on Thursday night from English councils.

  • This is the English council flipper.

  • Right.