Episode 174

All bets are off and all plans have been scrapped. The British General Election is about to get underway. Are the Conservatives going to greatly increase their majority, enhancing the personal power of the prime minister; will Jeremy Corbyn be able to convince the electorate he’s the man for No 10; will the Liberal Democrats be able to climb back from so little; and are UKIP heading for the scrapyard – along with the Fixed-term Parliaments Act? All players and parties are now preparing for action, so we thought: who better to invite into the Sputnik studio to ruminate on this than former Conservative minister Steve Norris?

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