General Election 2024’s 7 best campaign moments and gaffes

The Scotsman

While Rishi Sunak’s D-Day blunder and Gamblegate score the highest on More in Common’s ‘Gaffe-O-Meter’, Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer, on course for the biggest majority of any party since 1832, and Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey have also provoked laughter and engaged in wild activities.

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00:00Now is the moment for Britain to choose its future, to decide whether

00:05we want to build on the progress we have made or risk going back to

00:08square one with no plan and no certainty. Earlier today I spoke with

00:14His Majesty the King to request the dissolution of Parliament. The King

00:18has granted this request and we will have a general election on the

00:214th of July. This election will take place at a time when the world is

00:25more dangerous than it has been since the end of the Cold War. Putin's

00:30Russia is waging a brutal war in Ukraine and will not stop there if he

00:33succeeds. Are you looking forward to all the football? Not so much my bag.

00:38Well, get people in, get people in. No, but that's because you guys aren't

00:43in it. Get people out, you know, there'll be people coming, it'll be

00:47good summer as well. But kind of support England at least. Yeah. Well,

00:50while he's hoping voters will flock to polling stations in his favour on

00:55July the 4th, he's not had, apparently, looking at these images, the

01:00same appeal. Down on the farm where he's been in Devon this afternoon,

01:04he's been wooing farmers, but the sheep don't seem that interested as

01:11he was trying to feed them. When I grew up, my dad was a toolmaker, he

01:15worked in a factory. It's true. My mum was a nurse and actually we

01:19couldn't make ends meet, which actually isn't a laughing matter, we

01:22couldn't make ends meet.

01:32He'll be monitoring that, the Labour event is already kicking off, but

01:35Starmer's not on the stage. Here goes Ed Davey, double the stuff. Wow,

01:39the extra weight makes it really... You can see his lacklustre, that

01:42looks fun.

01:43Will, I'm just going to pause you there, because believe it or not,

01:48that's Ed Davey, Paddy. I'm not going to get you to... He's got the

01:51handbrake off, hasn't he?

01:52Yeah, well, he's certainly going for it. I mean, kind of showing what

01:56Gareth Southgate should do, which is be a bit bold and a bit brave,

02:00maybe not jump off a ledge, although he might have felt like it at the

02:0494th minute last night.

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