The real reasons behind Rishi Sunak's failing Conservative election campaign 

How it started: stop the boats How it is going: stop the bets. I want to declare July the 5th our freedom day. The day we got rid of the most corrupt and incompetent government!!!

I'm genuinely starting to wonder if Rishi hasn't got a bet on a Tory wipeout himself.

The Tory coffin can't take many more nails.

Rich people do not know what real life is like, What it's like to struggle. Mr Sunak bought a home in 1 of the most expensive parts of England when he was in his early 20's. Mr Sunak and his wife have over £1 Billion in cash and assets. He has no idea what life is like for the 99.99%. Leaders of countries should be people who come from the actual everyday working person who has a life of proper exposure to what life is like in said country.

Tories at the weekend...' It can't get any worse for us than this'. Then it does.

Don’t say it’s the worst. They can go lower.

Please stop putting a 30 sec coming up at the start its really frustrating having to skip the start of the video.

The day Johnson became leader it was all over.

When questioned on National Service, Sunak said he would use access to finance and sanction people who refused. That is sinister, would you want to fight for a country led by Sunak? If left to Sunak and the Tories they will force people to carry out National Service through coercion.

The Tories don't set standards for anybody they should all be prosecuted in the betting scandal

Old Bookies caught a corrupt Tory pulling a fast one 😂😂😂

Many Will Never Ever forgive these corrupt Tories for what they have done!!! Too many to mention!!

Where are the cabinet ministers just seems just sunak and he is really just useless.

No successful policy or directions to shout about, bankrupted economy sold out Britain debts interest on them 110billion?A year ,thanks and good bye?

Daniel why is it that political parties accumulate huge war chests and rich donors give the tory party eye popping contributions to spend on their campaigns if campaigns don't make any difference?

They really should have called this series "How to Lose an Election"...

Exactly. To many mistakes, to much blood on the Tories hands.

Rishi wants to lose, he has told the generals that he doesn't want to be a wartime Prime Minister.

Labour has to it's advantage the fact they will actually TRYING to address the problems and challenges rather than operating wildly without any plan or strategy (which we have seen from the Conservatives since the Brexit vote)!

ridiculous to ask a question about what will happen at an election in 2034 on the basis that Labour will win 2 terms. One thing that is obvious from the last few elections is how volatile political opinion is now and that everything can change relatively quickly.

Props to Polly for her point re "counterfactuals"

Who are we going to laugh at when the Tories aren't here any more?

"I'm not a monster, I'm just ahead of the curve."

Starmer and Labour need to be pitching themselves as the party of law and order now. Forget left vs right, forget high taxes vs low taxes or remain vs leave. The Tories have proven themselves disastrously corrupt and unfit for the burdens of office, and Farage and Reform are looking to capitalise on this to undermine and dismantle every institution that stands in their way. The SNP are mired in multiple campaign finance investigations. This is why trust in politics is so low. There is only one way to combat this- someone *has* to stand up for what the country is about and demonstrate that they aren't all the same. And a major part of that is going to be speaking to the Dannys and Rory Stewarts of the country and saying, this is our common ground, we care that there are rules, we don't disrespect institutions, and don't just listen to ourselves. If that process doesn't happen it's only going to get worse.

I think he wants to lose and take themal down with him

Bring back fixed term Government periods, so the election date is set. And only allow any Government to change PM once without triggering need for General Election.

The labour polling hasn't dropped. Despite Nigel Farage taking over Reform. ------ Make that what you will.

In 10 years it will be about full integration with Europe, as a nation that has watched Scotland and Northern Ireland win their independence and join the EU.

Everything wrong with the country is the Tories fault because they are in power 4/5's of the time.

Conservative Party Central Office? Somebody just put the lights out!!!

Very silly question!!

Spin in action. 'The numbers for the Labour party have not shifted at all', they have, they have gone down. It just so happens that the Conservatives have gone down by about the same amount so the difference is about the same. Labour at 44% at the start of June 41% on the 21st. This is supposed to be an informed expert. Is lying or incompetence encoded in Tory DNA?

Can i bet each way on the Tories ?

I think Daniel's claim that the Tories "are not losing because they're making mistakes - they're making mistakes because they're losing" is SO far off the mark. I think clearly BOTH are happening. They feed into each other. BUT fundamentally, they wouldn't be losing if they hadn't made mistakes. You can argue about when it was that they began their path to disaster. But IMO the mistake that set off the chain-reaction was David Cameron's kowtowing to the ERG faction of his party in granting them the Brexit referendum. He should've shown some bottle and kicked that element from the party. Instead, he enabled them, and they've destroyed much of what the Tories used to stand for. They're an unserious, unprincipled, myopic, and embarrassing mess, and I'm honestly surprised 20% of the population are still gonna vote for them.

right, like

Farage economics has been compared to Liz truss economics that crashed the economy .this would scare the financial markets.

Hilarious, ALREADY predicting an unpopular labour government with no agenda and only two terms. Old habits die hard.

Rain, Titanic, home early from D-Day, being "deprived" of Sky as a child, running sheep, betting ... the story about the Tory party is also about the campaign

Cheaters, a Spiv culture, rule breakers, me first.... None of that sits at all well with the British.

The bald Tory is living in a Dreamworld

The present voting system should be changed to Proportional Representation - if Labour were to bring that in during their first 5 years, then the next election will be a very different affair to this one - which is why Labour probably will try to resist the pressure to bring in PR. As regards the small boats - why can't they order the Navy to patrol the Channel? - in the reign of Elizabeth I the Navy was called 'the wooden walls of England' - now they have ships made of sheet steel a foot thick but are doing nothing to stop this invasion.

The Tories lost ethics since brexit preceded by austerity

There is one big trick that will boost the economy and investment almost instantly - effectively join the EU single market and eliminate all of the barriers to trade and red tape at the borders. Probablte immediate increase toGgDP this year of up to additional £60billion or more over and above existing trends. Don't talk about it now but switch it on within weeks of July5th.

But it won’t restart.

I think you are describing a different election. The Labour vote has not moved because people have already decided who they are voting for. No extra gaffes will lead to a marked increase in the polls. Equally we have a stubborn percentage of the population who appear to want to vote Tory. This in spite of the mess the country is in. This can be explained quite simply, there are those who are well off enough not to be adversely affected. The Conservatives on 16% is pretty poor, however, I doubt if Reform were to match the 16% that it would translate in to the same number of seats. It is a quirk of the first past the post system that areas that are staunchly Conservative will still return a Tory MP.

I just put £1M on it snowing on July 4th

The first election I actually took notice of was 1992 as I was about 14

The Tories are finished because they did not do as they were told by the people.

Weird.

You're all sounding rather desperate guys so much about the future being dictated by labour failing rather than anything about the Tories succeeding - Lovely Jubbly 😂😂

Does Time Radio talk about anything other than opinion polls?

1 mil on bet 365?😅

The debate over whether the dreadful conservatives campaign is a cause of a loss of support or an effect of it was very interesting. I would suggest that the campaign and the 'betting' scandal is like a dark Haiku for the conservatives tenure. Privileged, arrogant, detached and blundering. To me it has validated all negative perceptions of the Tory shambles since Brexit.

No Daniel is either deluded or something else.

Daniel Finkelstein, is usually worth listening to, this broadcast he's so off the mark! His political preference is clouding his judgement. When things go wrong they confirm a view of incompetence, the betting scandal confirms a view that the national party has still not shaken off individuals in high positions setting themselves up for personal gain. Even amongst its support they've lost any moral authority. Get it right Daniel!

What was that staying Harold Wilson said about political difficulties events dear boy event's 😅

Sunak looks like he's going grey in your thumbnail?

The election campaign of 2024 will be a question in history and politics exams for centuries to come. Here is a possible question, outline the events of the 2024 general election and how its outcome shaped the political system we have at present.

Rishis world and ours are chalk and cheese .

Such fun bluetooth over GBnews!

Your right-wing bias is showing again, Times “journalists.” Literally no reason whatsoever to assume Labour will fail and become hated very quickly yet you somehow manage to take this as a given anyway!

Don’t worry, Mr Trump will give the King 1peppercorn for whatever’s left.

Check the difference between 50Hz and 60hz, but I just remembered, you guys threw away all those good technical stadands, and don’t do techie stuff

The downfall began when David Cameron resigned. Also the Tories now have reform the contend with

Good result if evil capitalism as defined by Einstein in his 1949 paper Why Socialism comes to.pass

SERIOUS QUESTION what would happen if Labour won every single seat? Obviously unlikely however the centre right/right wing votes are all fragmented ? Would Labour be forced to have another election? Or would they split ie left wing vs centrists ? Any ideas?

If labor isn't talking about wealth redistribution (in a country more unequal than during the guilded age)... life is not going to improve.

You dont no the half of it

Stop treating this election like some jolly jape Times Radio. I look forward to seeing your right wing, maty spin come utterly undone on the morning of the 5th July!

Let’s remember they destroyed their chances under Boris and Liz, this isn’t all Rishi.

Reform UK will grow!!

Princess in her weak state with cancer congratulate Princ birthday after Sunak refusing to invest in health.Who needs more??

Such a presumptuous question stating that Labour have already won a second term. Global events on top of Labour incompetence is going to tank their numbers quickly, there won't be a honeymoon period like in 1997.

As soon as arrogant Starmer moves towards a customs union or single market the Labour support will drain away.

Any Conservative MP can collect one of these 🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠 from the Reform Party 😂

Bombay Tody Boy is better at selling Tody not selling Politics to Colonial masters!

Vote reform

Immigrants Preachinting to the Natives...

all he had to do was read some youtube comments then scrap net zero, leave the echr, make us energy independent , go full steam ahead to capitalise on Brexit, and stop all the nonsense aimed at car owners - just one of these would have been a tremendous leap forward - unfortunately it means sunak the loser would have had to Stand up for the people of Britain .........

Vote reform.

The public generally holds theConservative party in contempt. Their 2019 manifesto turned out to be full of lies. We didn't vote for the WEF in 2019 but that's what we got, and Labour will be even worse. Time to vote for Reform UK

The real reason is REFORM!

Conservative voters need to wake up and realise that it's no longer a conservative party. It's just Labour with a different name. High taxes, high immigration, strikes and discontent - Vote Reform

Labour won't last 2yrs! Vote reform 🇬🇧

Sunak stabbed Boris in the back and i have no idea what he was thinking really??? If I had to choose now between the Sunak and Boris it it's gonna be Boris on all counts, I have no idea what Sunak was thinking really???? I cannot stand his looks, his dress sense and I don't give a flying rat if he's a millionaire, who give a damn ??? really???? So 👋 👋 Sunak do not let the door at number 10 hit you now......go for a very long holiday in India , it's very nice there this time of year. Never stab anyone in the back ever again, sometimes your dosh cannot help.....

Polly Mackenzie has such contempt for ordinary people who disagree with her - she oozes contempt for people who believe in Britain, controlled immigration and effective action against criminals. She is an elitist and utterly out of touch.