Electioncast: The First Results Are In!
5/8/202647 min
Today, the first results from the English local elections have been declared, with Reform UK surging and losses for Labour - with many more results still to come.
Adam, Chris and Alex were joined by Luke Tryl, UK Director of More in Common, live on BBC Sounds to analyse the political picture that has emerged overnight.
Counts in both Scotland and Wales are taking place on Friday.
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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 Miranda Slade with Grace Braddock. The technical producer was Jack Graysmark. The assistant editor is Jack Maclaren. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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First 90 secondsAdam Fleming· Host0:00
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Adam Fleming· Host0:34
[chime] Hello. The Newscast election tradition continues. We have just done an episode of Newscast talking about the election results we've got so far, which was broadcast live on BBC Sounds at 7:00 in the morning on the dot. So that is what you'll hear now in podcast form, and we've left any of the bad bits where I made mistakes in just to keep it real.
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Adam Fleming· Host1:03
[upbeat music] Hello, it's Adam Fleming here, host of the BBC's daily news podcast, Newscast, and you're about to hear us record a live episode. Record a live episode? Is that possible? Well, such is the topsy-turvy world of British politics, anything's possible these days. So we're gonna be talking about what results we have got at this point, uh, mainly... Well, in fact, it's only results from England at the moment. We're still waiting for lots of English