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hi everybody. so, rishi sunak is still fighting for votes and he is still fighting for hisjob, because it is not over yet and rule number one of journalism is, never assume. but he was on with us this morning and it was quite a big moment, ithink. i think it was maybe the last big moment that he will have during this election campaign and that s what makes it so big. because, look, there s lots of polls day by day you can t move for polls, and publicly, rishi sunak says, he said to you, in fact, he still thinks he will be prime minister on friday after the general election. privately, i can tell you, the conservative campaign believe the polls and the labour campaign believe the polls. and, so, they need rishi sunak needs something to change and this was perhaps his big last opportunity to speak to the public about why he thinks things need to change. i was struck by the fact that he has faced a much smaller electorate before when he stood as conservative leader a ....
some people will already have had a postal vote. the slight complication was when he was asked again, what are you going to do about these candidates, would you encourage people still to vote for them what are you going to do? and they said, we would encourage them to vote for the party in these areas because by voting for these people, it is all about the share of the vote that reform uk gets and that is important. so they are saying they have dropped the candidates but still want people to vote for reform so that is the slightly unusual position. even the party accepts that this is not ideal. that this is not ideal. what has also not been that this is not ideal. what has also not been ideal that this is not ideal. what has also not been ideal other - also not been ideal other revelations in a channel 4 revelations in a channel a documentary, allegations made about a reform uk canvasser but there is a dispute over that between reform uk on channel 4. this dispute o ....
uh, well, a programme tomorrow, a big programme with some very important guests and also practising for the election. so for most of the day i will be locked in the basement in broadcasting house. so, if this is recorded, does that mean it ll be better than the last three weeks that we ve done? we can only hope. i wonder if they ve taken that bit out. anyway, this is getting too meta now, so, i actually wonder how many hours it is until the polls close. well, we don t know because we don t know what time it is because we re in the wrong time. oh, this is getting very confusing. shall we get on with it? yeah, yeah. laura, what are your predictions, then, for the last few days of campaigning? well, ithink, look, it s been a very, very eventful campaign. so, you know, 2a hours ago, nobody would have predicted that the prime minister would have inserted himself very dramatically into a race row about reform candidates. so i m not going to make predictions about specifics. h ....
be convinced that change is possible. most of all, they need to be convinced to vote for it. because change doesn t happen unless you vote for it. ,, our political correspondent has been giving me the very latest. as we saw in those pictures, giving me the very latest. as we saw in those pictures, sleeves giving me the very latest. as we saw in those pictures, sleeves rolled - giving me the very latest. as we saw in those pictures, sleeves rolled up. in those pictures, sleeves rolled up an artist ties, seemingly without any notes and quite fired up. this was a chance to hammer home those messages that we ve been hearing all for this campaign, the big on being change. he was saying the power of the vote belongs to you for the user to stop the chaos, turn the page and start to rebuild our country. that s been a big labour message. i thought what was interesting is the other thing he said, if we take our feet off the gas and if we don t carry on and just assume or have a ....
uh, well, a programme tomorrow, a big programme with some very important guests and also practising for the election. so for most of the day i will be locked in the basement in broadcasting house. so, if this is recorded, does that mean it ll be better than the last three weeks that we ve done? we can only hope. i wonder if they ve taken that bit out. anyway, this is getting too meta now, so, i actually wonder how many hours it is until the polls close. well, we don t know because we don t know what time it is because we re in the wrong time. oh, this is getting very confusing. shall we get on with it? yeah, yeah. laura, what are your predictions, then, for the last few days of campaigning? well, ithink, look, it s been a very, very eventful campaign. so, you know, 2a hours ago, nobody would have predicted that the prime minister would have inserted himself very dramatically into a race row about reform candidates. so i m not going to make predictions about specifics. h ....