Election announcement special

The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has called an election on July
4th. But why did he choose today to do it and what can we expect
in the coming weeks?


Amol and Nick consider the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s
calculation on an announcement that took both of them by
surprise.


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The Today Podcast is hosted by Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson, both
presenters of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the UK’s most
influential radio news programme. Amol was the BBC’s media editor
for six years and is the former editor of the Independent, he’s
also the current presenter of University Challenge. Nick has
presented the Today programme since 2015, he was the BBC’s
political editor for ten years before that and also previously
worked as ITV’s political editor.


The senior producer is Tom Smithard, the producers are Hatty Nash
and Joe Wilkinson. The editor is Louisa Lewis. The executive
producer is Owenna Griffiths. Technical production from Daffyd
Evans.