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Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source. | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
Let's look through some of the main stories here in the BBC newsroom. | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
The UK is heading to the polls for the third times in three years. | :00:15. | :00:25. | |
I have just chaired a meeting of the Cabinet and we're greedy Government | :00:26. | :00:33. | |
should call a general election. -- and we agreed the Government should | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
call a general election. Her opponents are ready. | :00:40. | :00:47. | |
I welcome the chance to put the case to the people of Britain. Reaction | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
from across the UK, our correspondents have all sent | :00:55. | :00:55. | |
reports. Here, in the UK financial markets | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
have responded positively to news of an early election - | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
we'll find out why. Christian is in Westminster for us - | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
if you've got any questions, send them to #BBCOS, and he or I | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
will answer them for you. from the perspective of Scotland, | :01:08. | :01:25. | |
Wales and Northern Ireland. Scotland's First Minister, | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
Nicola Sturgeon, of all of her previous comments | :01:30. | :01:30. | |
on the idea of an early election. All statements that Theresa May must | :01:31. | :01:49. | |
surely now be regretting. Well, the Prime Minister says she is not | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
regretting that, she has taken the decision reluctantly, recently, and | :01:55. | :01:55. | |
she says in the national interest. Here, though, is more | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
of Nicola Sturgeon's The question of what kind of country | :01:58. | :02:06. | |
we want to be is at stake in this election campaign, and whether we | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
want that to be a country the future of which is steered and directed by | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
a Tory party moving ever more to the right, or whether we want the people | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
of Scotland to be in charge. This is an opportunity to make Scotland's | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
voice heard and make sure we have MPs from Scotland who will be | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
fighting Scotland's corner. The Scottish National Party | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
did very well This shows the vote | :02:30. | :02:30. | |
after the 2010 election. Orange represents | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
the Liberal Democrats. Red is Labour. | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
Yellow for the SNP. The SNP won 56 out of | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
59 seats in Scotland. One of the issues likely to dominate | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
as the SNP campaigns this time round is its demand for a second | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
referendum on Scottish independence. Remember, Nicola Sturgeon | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
wants it to happen before the two-year | :03:00. | :03:00. | |
Brexit process is over. This is the analysis of the BBC's | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
Scotland editor, Sarah Smith. Nicola Stur has said she thinks it | :03:04. | :03:17. | |
is very opportunist of the Prime Minister to call this election, but | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
that will not stop her campaigning as hard as she can, saying that | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
every vote for the SNP is a vote for another independence referendum. You | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
will remember that although Nicola Stur says she wants another vote, | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
and the Scottish Parliament has agreed, the Prime Minister has says | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
there cannot be one until after the UK has left the EU. The issue of | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
whether Scotland should get to vote on independence sooner than that, | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
that will absolutely dominate the election in Scotland. If the SNP do | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
well, they can use it to bolster their argument as to why they should | :03:53. | :04:01. | |
have a referendum. But they did so well at the last election, they | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
cannot do better, and it is difficult to see how they can do | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
just as well next time. If they lose any seats, their opponents will | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
suggest this means people do not want another referendum, so it is | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
fraught with difficulties on both sides. BBC Wales political editor | :04:22. | :04:30. | |
Nick Servini is in Cardiff. A number of political leaders in Wales have | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
given the impression that they want to get stuck into this general | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
election campaign. The calculation from the Tories will be that there | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
will be many people in Wales who will want to give Theresa May a | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
mandate to take the UK out of the EU. Elsewhere, for wildly differing | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
reasons, the Lib Dems and Ukip will also both feel there are | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
opportunities, so no shortage of enthusiasm from political leaders, I | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
guess the question is whether it is shared among the wider Welsh public. | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
And from Wales to Northern Ireland. This election comes at the most | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
politically delicate of times. There's currently | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
no government in Belfast. That's because the two main | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
parties failed to agree a new power-sharing arrangement | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
after an election last month. Despite this, the new election | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
has been welcomed. Sinn Fein's leader, Gerry Adams, | :05:20. | :05:29. | |
took to Twitter to say that he was up for it. | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
His opponent, Arlene Foster, who leads the Democratic Unionist Party, | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
She said this was a chance for voters to vote for the Union. | :05:38. | :05:48. | |
Here's our Northern Ireland correspondent Chris Buckler. | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
Stormont's parties had already Mr Deadlines to try to form | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
governments, and those talks were meant to continue in the days ahead, | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
but calling this vote probably leaves them with no chance of | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
success and adds to the sense of political instability here. That is | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
because campaigns here tend to be divisive, they tend to push the | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
parties apart. Some commentators even called the last one nakedly | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
sectarian. This one is unlikely to be very different. Unionists are | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
calling this an opportunity to vote for the Union, while Republicans are | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
emphasising the negative impact of Brexit and calling for a referendum | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
on a united Ireland. Meanwhile, with the UK Parliament looking like it | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
will dissolve very soon, there are still the very real problem of no | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
government at Stormont. Westminster as two choices, one of which are to | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
take over the running of Northern Ireland, and the other is a assembly | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
election going alongside the general election. In recent years, general | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
elections have meant live TV debates featuring the leaders, but perhaps | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
not this time, or perhaps not all the leaders. | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
This is from the Guardian's political reporter. | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
"Tories confirm Theresa May won't take part | :07:02. | :07:02. | |
And here's the Spectator Magazine's political correspondent. | :07:03. | :07:10. | |
"Next question: Will May be empty-chaired in the debates | :07:11. | :07:12. | |
We will have to wait and see how the broadcasters approach that, but Katy | :07:13. | :07:28. | |
is here, obviously a calculation by the Prime Minister that she can | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
afford to be the chaired. She is obviously decide that it is not | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
worth their while to be in this debate, she has got very little to | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
gain from this, whereas Jeremy Corbyn, standing next to them might | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
give them a statesman like respectability that they do not | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
actually have. Interesting to see the other leaders lining up saying, | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
how are you not going to show up? We had this in the 2015 election, David | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
Cameron said he did not want to be in a seven person debates, and all | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
the broadcasters threatened to empty-chair him, but it didn't | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
happen. I am sure the other parties would trade Theresa May's polling | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
for what they have, the Tories performing very well, but being a | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
frontrunner is not always easy in an election, is it? You can become too | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
defensive in your campaigning. The pressure really is an May, calling | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
this election against a previous promises, so if she only raises a | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
majority is likely, people might ask if it was worth it. All the polls | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
are suggesting a landslide, and it is impossible to see how many, if | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
she only raises it by about ten of these, people would ask whether it | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
was worth the gamble. What will her target be? What sort of majority | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
would make the gamble worth it? I think 50 MPs is the minimum, she | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
needs a working majority of 50, and I think, to be honest, a lot of MPs | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
are hoping it will be more, around 90. In terms of credibility, she | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
said time and again that she would not do this, and now she has - do | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
you think are explanation hung together, as she put that issue to | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
bed? She has tried to explain that she was reluctant, and it is down to | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
the opposition parties frustrating Brexit. I think time will tell, but | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
the first icy on pole, we had a snap poll today, suggested that voters | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
did understand, so that continues to be the case, she might not have | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
problems with the gamble. In terms of practicality is, does everything | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
stopped and all the parties going to campaign mode? Well, we have got | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
until the beginning of May, but Brexit has been dominating | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
everything for months now, and I can't see the election really | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
changing that. Thanks for joining us, Katy. | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
Still to come - we'll have reaction from across the UK | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
to the announcement that there will be a general election on June 8th. | :09:57. | :10:04. | |
Well, the Prime Minister hopes the country will go to the polls | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
Theresa May will want to build on her majority of 17. | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
Our political correspondent Vicki Young looks at the numbers | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
and where the key battle grounds for seats are likely to be. | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
Theresa May says she wants certainty and stability for the UK, | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
and for her that means a clear Conservative election victory. | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
that she can improve on her party's performance two years ago. | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
showing the results of the 2015 general election. | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
Most striking are the swathes of blue across England, | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
The Conservatives picked up 331, Labour won 232, the SNP 56, | :10:41. | :10:52. | |
the Lib Dems and DUP eight seats each. | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
it left the Tories with a very slim majority of just 12. | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
So where will the Tories try to boost their numbers? | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
The North West and the Midlands are crucial battle grounds, | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
here there are numerous marginal constituencies where very few votes | :11:09. | :11:10. | |
At the last election, Labour made little headway here, | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
Certainly, Theresa May is calling this election against a backdrop | :11:14. | :11:25. | |
where she is very, very much the favourite to win and, in truth, | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
against the backdrop where no opposition party has ever gone | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
into an election in such a weak position in the opinion polls. | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
Now, Labour desperately need a revival in Scotland if they're | :11:39. | :11:40. | |
to form the next government, but the Tories and Lib Dems | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
will also be hoping to prise some seats away from the SNP. | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
Fascinating too will be the South West of England, | :11:47. | :11:48. | |
They were wiped out here at the last election | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
and are hoping for a comeback, but how will their pro-EU | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
message go down in a region that voted for Brexit? | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
The Prime Minister seems to be trying | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
If you look at last year's referendum result, | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
you can see why - Remain in yellow, Leave in blue. | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
could have a big impact on the result in June - | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
will areas that voted Remain deliver a bruising message to Theresa May? | :12:20. | :12:21. | |
General-election campaigns can be unpredictable, | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
and just two years after the last one, | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
voters must decide again whether there will be | :12:29. | :12:29. | |
dramatic changes to the electoral map of Britain. | :12:30. | :12:50. | |
Hello, I am Ros Atkins with BBC Outside Source. Theresa May has | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
announced that she will ask parliament to vote one holding a | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
snap general election on June the 8th. | :13:00. | :13:07. | |
Let's take a few more minutes to get through some of the questions you | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
have been sending in, with the help of Christian Fraser live from | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
Westminster. Before he was based in London, he was our correspondent in | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
Paris. The first question we have got is from a viewer who wants to | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
say, will the French election result have any impact on the UK election? | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
Well, a lot of people will be watching that French election, | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
because it is highly unpredictable at the moment, four candidates at | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
the top of the polls, and you can throw a tea towel over all four. We | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
will be watching the first-round very closely and waiting to see | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
whether Marine Le Pen and perhaps even Jean-Luc Melenchon of the far | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
left get into the second round. People will try to draw a pattern | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
from that. The thing is that the earthquake in British political | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
terms as already happened with Brexit, and when you look at the | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
polls, it would have to be some reversal for Theresa May not to get | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
that majority, because I think, reading today, there is no sitting | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
Conservative prime Minster who are sad a majority as she has had in the | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
polls, or a lead in the polls at the moment, since the early 1980s. It | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
would have to be some turnaround for her not to get that majority. | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
Another question, and we have people calling from all over the world, | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
does the second most popular party even matter? Where will they fit | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
into the new governance? The thing to say about that is that in | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
democracies, the winner takes all, and that will be the case for | :14:41. | :14:48. | |
Theresa May. If you get a thumping big majority, she doesn't even have | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
to think about her own backbenchers. Having said that, obviously, it is | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
advantageous to have a good opposition, and the Government has | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
said along the way, and David Davis, the Brexit minister, has said along | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
the way, that he wants to involve parliament in the process, so there | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
will be consultation with the opposition, but it would be, if the | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
Conservatives win, it will be them dictating the terms. Question from a | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
viewer in the Netherlands, can we consider this election as a new | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
referendum on Brexit? Well, that is an interesting one, because I think | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
there is going to be some tactical voting along the way. I was talking | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
to Caroline Lucas, the co-chair, the co-leader of the Green Party | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
tonight, and she was saying she would be happy to sit down with the | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
Liberal Democrats in some constituencies, and maybe they would | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
stand aside to give a pro Remain party a clear run. You might get | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
voters thinking the same way, so down in the south-west of the | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
country, where the Lib Dems lost seats in a big way in 2015, they | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
will be looking to reverse that against the Conservatives this time | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
around, so you might get some Labour voters saying Gabo we will vote for | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
the Lib Dems to force the Conservatives out. It might not be a | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
rerun of the referendum, but there will be tactical voting along Brexit | :16:07. | :16:15. | |
lines. A number of you are asking whether the new constituency changes | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
in the UK will be put in place for this election, Christian said he was | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
pretty sure they wouldn't be. We have checked, they definitely will | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
not be, we are on the old constituencies, nothing has changed. | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
And a question from Jim in Essex in the UK, any chance of other parties | :16:32. | :16:39. | |
being upfront about a coalition to win floating voters? Let's talk | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
about that, because a little bit earlier I saw you talking to | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
Caroline Lucas, discussing just this issue. As I say, she is quite open | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
to that idea. They are not just necessarily talking about working | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
strategically together in certain constituencies, and they did that at | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
the by-election in Richmond Park, in south-west London. There were | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
reports that the Green Party locally said, we don't have a chance of | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
winning, and they stood aside, and the Lib Dems overturned a whopping | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
23,000 majority that the Conservative candidate who became an | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
independent, Zac Goldsmith, that he had, and the Lib Dems won. So it can | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
work, that strategic sort of alliance between certain parties, | :17:21. | :17:22. | |
but really I think the Lib Dems would like to be working closely | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
with Labour, and they are going to have to work closely together if | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
indeed Theresa May gets that majority. One more question from Ben | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
in London, do you think people will vote along traditional party lines | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
or specifically on Brexit? I am a northerner, so I come from the | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
north-west of the country, and in my neck of the woods, I am originally | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
from Burnley, a town that voted overwhelmingly from Brexit, and I'm | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
interested to see what happens, because I know Brexit is important | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
to people there, but it is a die-hard Labour area. Look at North | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
Wales, the north-west and the north-east, and there are lots of | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
constituencies in those areas where people really want Brexit to work, | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
and yet they are torn, because they are die-hard Labour voters. Some | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
voters will have a real quandary this time around, and we have said | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
before, some Labour voters just don't want Jeremy Corbyn, and some | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
really do. There are all sorts of different things people will be | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
considering when they go to the polls, but it is more difficult for | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
Labour voters than the vast majority of Conservative voters, who are | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
behind Theresa May and want Brexit to work. Thanks very much, | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
Christian, you have been very useful, let's do it again tomorrow! | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
This is a story we will be doing a lot of detail over the coming weeks. | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
Let's talk about the pound. This is what happened when we knew that | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
Theresa May was going to be giving an important statement but we didn't | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
know what it was about, the pound went down. Once we knew, it rallied. | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
Deutsche Bank has been sharing its analysis of what the election may | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
mean for the economy. It says... "It will dilute the influence of MPs | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
pushing for hard Brexit, strengthening the Government's | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
domestic political position over key EU demands for a | :19:12. | :19:12. | |
transitional arrangement." "Dangerous gamble which may | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
backfire, adds to economic and political | :19:17. | :19:28. | |
uncertainties for Europe." But the FTSE was down | :19:29. | :19:30. | |
by more than 2%. Here's Rachel Horne | :19:31. | :19:39. | |
from BBC Business FTSE was down before the | :19:40. | :19:55. | |
announcement, lots of geopolitical announcements, the French elections, | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
and now this added into the mix. Because sterling rose, that brings | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
the FTSE down as well, because lots of companies bank their profits in | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
dollars or Euros, because they are global companies, so any rise in the | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
strength of sterling brings down the values of those profits. That has | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
also been pulling the FTSE down ever so slightly. Overall, traders are | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
saying that apart from that initial knee-jerk reaction in Stirling, | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
reaction in the market is fairly muted, they do not expect a big | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
reaction until the results of the election come through, unless | :20:29. | :20:30. | |
polestar to show that the Conservatives won't win a majority. | :20:31. | :20:40. | |
I'm going to begin the next segment with a video that has been shared | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
thousands of times, you may well have seen it. This is Jon Kay in | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
Bristol breaking the news of the new election to a woman called Brenda. | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
Oh, for God's sake, I can't honestly... | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
There's too much politics going on at the moment, | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
It gets things out in the open, sorts things out. | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
I thought she said that initially when she took over. | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
I disagree with this entirely. Are you excited about another election? | :21:12. | :21:25. | |
No, not another one! It's too much. It's great, isn't it? It means that | :21:26. | :21:26. | |
we can get her out. Let's go further west from Bristol, | :21:27. | :21:41. | |
Truro, where Cornwall voted for Brexit and swung heavily towards the | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
Conservatives in the last election, and here are some voters there | :21:45. | :21:45. | |
giving their reaction. She has pulled the rubbered from the | :21:46. | :21:55. | |
bag this time around. It all depends, quite a shrewd move, we | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
will see. I found Brexit so disheartening, and the whole process | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
so disheartening, and yeah, anything that will reverse it would be really | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
good, but I can't see that a general election would do that. Hopefully it | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
will be stronger, yes, but I wish she would get on with it, just get | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
us out and finish with it. I don't understand all this negotiation. It | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
is a complicated business. Let's shift to the Prime Minister's very | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
safe Conservative seat of Maidenhead. Theresa May has been the | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
MP for nearly 20 years, big majority, it is unthinkable that she | :22:33. | :22:34. | |
will not win again. What do I think? | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
It's a bit soon, isn't it? She's only just got in, hasn't she? | :22:38. | :22:39. | |
I don't know what to make of it. I just heard it on the news. | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
I was absolutely staggered. That she has called one, | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
I can't really see the reason why. I think it's a good thing, really. | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
I do. I think after the Brexit-type thing, | :22:54. | :22:55. | |
and she went straight into power, I think the people didn't | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
have a chance to have their say. They'll get in again, | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
unfortunately, because Labour, | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
who really do fight for the poor... Finally, further north, Dewsbury, a | :23:07. | :23:22. | |
large South Asian community, 80 battle ground for Labour and the | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
Conservatives. Danny Savage has spent the day there. | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
Nothing's changed since the last general election for you? | :23:31. | :23:32. | |
I do think hopefully it's needed to have a clearer mandate in order | :23:33. | :23:44. | |
It's a very brave and bold assistant to go for a general election. Do | :23:45. | :23:55. | |
think it will work, or could it backfire? Here, not such a big | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
gamble, but across the country it is more of a gamble. | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
It's the first general election since I've turned 18, | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
and a lot of my friends are really excited to vote, but I've got no | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
idea which way I'm going to vote so I'm going to have | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
Before we wrap up the programme, a question from a lot of you, is there | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
a possibility that Brexit will be cancelled depending on how this | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
election result goes? We can never say never, especially after the last | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
couple of years, but I must say that is very, very unlikely. Labour and | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
the Conservatives have dominated UK politics for a long time. Assuming | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
they become the two biggest parties, well, we know Theresa May supports | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
Brexit, she is making the case, but Jeremy Corbyn too is interested in | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
talking about the nature of Brexit, not reversing it. This is very much | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
about the form it takes, not about whether it happens or not. Thank you | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
very much indeed for watching, we will have much more tomorrow, I'm | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
sure. Until then, bye-bye. | :24:58. | :25:01. |