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Speaker 1: Gavin Gray, the UK correspondents with us right.

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Speaker 2: Now, Hey, Kevin, Hi there, Heather Devin.

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Speaker 1: So we are seriously talking now about the possibility that

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Speaker 1: Kiir Starmer, the most boring man I've seen in ages,

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Speaker 1: is going to outperform Tony Blair's landslide.

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Speaker 2: It's looking that way. So the polls open here for

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Speaker 2: the general election in twenty three and a quarter hours.

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Speaker 2: So very exciting stuff. But the last most recent opinion

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Speaker 2: poll from a very very well respected Polster group that

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Speaker 2: the leader of the opposition is on for a massive landslide.

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Speaker 2: They are predicting that out of the six hundred and

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Speaker 2: fifty seats in Parliament, the Keir Starmer's Labor Party will

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Speaker 2: win four hundred and eighty four. Now that'll mean that

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Speaker 2: they then possibly have a massive, massive majority of over

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Speaker 2: three hundred. I mean normally, when Boris Johnson got elected

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Speaker 2: in he won with a majority of eighty people were

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Speaker 2: amazed at that. The idea is somebody's going to get

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Speaker 2: in with a majority of over three hundred is stunning

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Speaker 2: and deeply worrying for the Conservative Party, the party of power. Indeed,

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Speaker 2: according to this opinion poll, these latest figures anyway suggest

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Speaker 2: that the Conservative Party Rishie Sunac's party may be down

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Speaker 2: to just sixty four MPs. Now that'll mean some very

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Speaker 2: very big names just disappear off our political map and

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Speaker 2: it means that they are only just the second biggest party.

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Speaker 2: So the Liberal Democrats, normally who you know in the

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Speaker 2: past really really suffered, particularly following the coalition with David

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Speaker 2: Cameron's government, would get sixty one, so only a little below.

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Speaker 2: Of course, all these are just forecasts, they aren't accurate votes,

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Speaker 2: but they were done on thirty four and a half

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Speaker 2: thousand different interviews with people up and down the country.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, the big question is what will happen tomorrow. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Now, now, obviously there has been a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a problem with the polling in the UK and the past.

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Speaker 1: Do you think they've got on top of them in

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Speaker 1: these poles completely trustworthy?

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Speaker 2: I think the thing is with British people is we

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Speaker 2: quite like to be a bit naughty and do you

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Speaker 2: know what, at the moment, I don't know anyone who

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Speaker 2: would really tell me that they're going to vote Conservative.

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Speaker 2: I think there's a little bit of an era of

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Speaker 2: embarrassment about it. Certainly I've never seen fewer Conservative posters

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Speaker 2: going up around, you know, outside people's housing and so forth.

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Speaker 2: I think it's the fact people are just embarrassed to

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Speaker 2: admit it. But many are saying there's such a bad

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Speaker 2: choice between the two main parties, they probably feel they

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Speaker 2: might be compelled to go for something less palatable.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I understand that. So, and speaking of elections over

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Speaker 1: in France, more than two hundreds of the left wing

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Speaker 1: candidates have been.

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Speaker 2: Withdrawn, have they yees so? On Sundays the second raft

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Speaker 2: in the French election, and these of course the votes

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Speaker 2: for the parliament they have there. What's very interesting is

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Speaker 2: that as we approach the second round, it normally goes

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Speaker 2: down to three candidates in each constituency, and normally that

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Speaker 2: means you get a centrist for the left wing and

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Speaker 2: then the right wing Marine Le Pennz Party. Now the

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Speaker 2: far right parties we know did incredibly well in the

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Speaker 2: first round and it has now really put the scarem

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Speaker 2: tactics on the others. They the other parties are saying, right,

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Speaker 2: in a three way race, we want one of the

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Speaker 2: candidates of the left or the center to drop out

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Speaker 2: and throw their support behind the other left wing candidate

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Speaker 2: in order to keep out the far right. So we

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Speaker 2: believe that some two hundred and maybe more of these

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Speaker 2: three way races are becoming two way races instead, and

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Speaker 2: that I mean that it's going to be a very

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Speaker 2: very interesting, significant runoff vote on Sunday. To add for

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Speaker 2: that spice, the far right parties say unless they get

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Speaker 2: an overall majority, they are going to refuse to appoint

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Speaker 2: a prime minister. It looks like they might be slightly

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Speaker 2: faltering and waving on that actually in a recent radio

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Speaker 2: interview that that's the outright attention, which we leave French

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Speaker 2: politics in a complete hole and really a constitution on nightmare,

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Speaker 2: nobody quite knowing what's going on. So they are trying

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Speaker 2: to strengthen their support. The left wing are trying to

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Speaker 2: coalesce the different parties to strengthen their support either way.

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Speaker 2: Interesting time ahead. Keep a note in the diary for

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Speaker 2: Sunday and those exit polls.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean for political geeks, this is quite a week,

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Speaker 1: isn't it. Gavin, Thank you so much, appreciated, Good luck

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Speaker 1: with the election tomorrow. That's Kevin Gray, are UK correspondent.

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