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Sky News' deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard with their guide to the election day ahead.  This is day 37 of the campaign. Jack and Sam talk about the leaders’ final weekend, they discuss how Reform are continuing to be in the headlines, and following the Trump vs Biden debate, they look at the rest of the world, including the upcoming French election. Email Jack and S...

Sky News' deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard with their guide to the election day ahead.  This is day 36 of the campaign. Jack and Sam discuss, closing arguments - the morning after the final debate, junior doctor strikes, their impact and the Trump v Biden factor. Email Jack and Sam: jackandsam@sky.uk

Sky News' deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard with their guide to the election day ahead.  This is day 35 of the campaign, Jack and Sam discuss the final head-to-head - how have the two leaders fared through the campaign? Gamblegate the story that won't die and Reform going big on Net Zero - parliament’s next big battle. Email Jack and Sam: jackandsam@sky.uk

Sky News' deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard with their guide to the election day ahead.   This is day 34 of the campaign. Jack and Sam discuss how the Labour and Convservative campaigns are taking a brief pause while the emperor of Japan is in town, in Scotland the Daily Record comes out for Labour for the first time in 14 years, and Ed Davey launches a new manifesto...

Sky News' deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard with their guide to the election day ahead.   This is day 33 of the campaign. With 10 days remaining until election day Jack and Sam discuss Sunak and Starmer’s battle in The Sun, the fallout from Farage’s comments on the war in Ukraine, and the verdict from the Institute for Fiscal Studies on the party manifestos.    Email...

Sky News' deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard with their guide to the election day ahead. This is day 30 of the campaign. Jack and Sam discuss the betting scandal clouding the Conservative campaign, last night’s Question Time, and Rachel Reeves opening up.  Email Jack and Sam:  jackandsam@sky.uk In this episode, Jack and Sam discuss Craig Williams, the Conservative can...

Sky News' deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard with their guide to the election day ahead.   This is day 29 of the campaign. Jack and Sam discuss all four main leaders facing an audience on primetime TV, who is missing from the Tories' party donors event, Bank of England interest rates and who the newspapers are going to endorse for No 10.  Email Jack and Sam: jackandsa...

Sky News' deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard with their guide to the election day ahead.   This is day 28 of the campaign. Jack and Sam discuss inflation, the SNP manifesto launch, and how Labour’s transition planning is going.   Email Jack and Sam: jackandsam@sky.uk   

Sky News' deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard with their guide to the election day ahead.   This is day 27 of the campaign. Jack and Sam discuss the Tories doubling down on blank cheque warnings, if Labour’s economic message is struggling to break through, and Nigel Farage heads to Clacton.    Email Jack and Sam: jackandsam@sky.uk   

Sky News' deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard with their guide to the election day ahead.   This is day 26 of the campaign. Jack and Sam discuss Reform’s manifesto launch, the Conservatives’ changing tack for the final two weeks of campaigning, and Labour’s plan for the first 100 days.   Email Jack and Sam: jackandsam@sky.uk   

Sky News' deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard with their guide to the election day ahead.   This is day 23 of the campaign. Jack and Sam discuss the latest polling which shows Reform UK overtaking the Conservatives for the first time, the aftermath of Labour’s manifesto launch, and what the Lib Dems are up to in the so-called Tory Blue Wall.  Email Jack and Sam: jackan...

Sky News' deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard with their guide to the election day ahead.   This is day 22 of the campaign. Jack and Sam discuss the fallout of last night’s Sky News leaders’ special event. They also talk about the Labour manifesto launch, Rishi Sunak in Italy for the G7, and Plaid Cymru’s manifesto launch too.  Email Jack and Sam: jackandsam@sky.uk   

Sky News' deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard with their guide to the election day ahead.   This is day 21 of the campaign. Jack and Sam discuss the upcoming Sky News Leaders' special event between Sunak and Starmer, what the latest polling shows, and the Green party manifesto launch.  Email Jack and Sam: jackandsam@sky.uk   

Sky News' deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard with their guide to the election day ahead.   This is day 20 of the campaign. Jack and Sam discuss the Conservative manifesto launch, the Lib Dem and Labour positions on capital gains tax, and the Scottish five-way leaders' debate... featuring a soon-to-be-departing Tory leader there Douglas Ross.  Email Jack and Sam: jacka...

Sky News' deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard with their guide to the election day ahead.   This is day 19 of the campaign. Jack and Sam discuss Rishi Sunak’s attempted reset after the D-Day debacle, Labour’s plans for childcare, the Lib Dem’s manifesto launch, and the reaction to Emmanuel Macron’s shock election announcement in France.   Email Jack and Sam: jackandsam...

Sky News' deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard with their guide to the election day ahead.   This is day 16 of the campaign. Jack and Sam discuss the Labour party meeting to agree on their manifesto, Rishi Sunak facing criticism over missing a D-Day commemoration with world leaders yesterday, and the next TV debate with seven parties going at each other.   Email Jack an...

Sky News' deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard with their guide to the election day ahead.   This is day 15 of the campaign. Jack and Sam discuss the Conservatives on tax and if they have their figures on Labour right, the latest on new likely manifesto pledges, and what next for Welsh First Minister Vaughan Gething after losing yesterday's vote of no confidence.  Email...

Sky News' deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard with their guide to the election day ahead.   This is day 14 of the campaign. Jack and Sam discuss last night’s debate in Salford, the upcoming 80th anniversary of the D Day landings, and Welsh First Minister Vaughan Gething faces a motion of no confidence.  Email Jack and Sam: jackandsam@sky.uk

Sky News' deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard with their guide to the election day ahead.  This is day thirteen of the campaign. Jack and Sam discuss how the Tories want to put immigration on the agenda the day after Nigel Farage confirmed he's standing in Clacton. Does the new Reform leader change the campaign? They also preview the first of the TV debates and another...

Sky News' deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard with their daily guide to the election day ahead.  This is day twelve of the campaign. Jack and Sam discuss the Conservatives' announcement on gender laws, what Labour are saying about the UK's nuclear deterrent and what to expect from the first TV debate of the campaign, involving Scottish political leaders. Email Jack and...

Sky News' deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard with their daily guide to the election day ahead.  This is day 9 of the campaign. Jack and Sam discuss Donald Trump’s show-stealing convictions in the US, continued accusations of a purge of Labour’s left, and how the parties will be preparing for next week’s first TV debate.  Email Jack and Sam: jacka ndsam@sky.uk

Sky News' deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard with their daily guide to the election day ahead. This is day 8 of the campaign. Jack and Sam discuss Labour trying to settle its position on taxation, the claims that Sir Keir Starmer is purging the left of his party and a day which has a double dose of Nigel Farage. Email Jack and Sam: jackandsam@sky.uk

Two of Westminster's best-connected journalists, Sky News's Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard, guide you through their top predictions for the next seven days in British politics.    On this week's episode, Jack and Sam talk about their "epic fail" and reveal how they missed the biggest political story of the year - that Rishi Sunak would call a general election for July 4. Now the campaign...

Two of Westminster's best-connected journalists, Sky News' Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard, guide you through their top predictions for the next seven days in British politics.   This week the government will be hoping to see the rate of inflation hit the Bank of England's 2% target as Rishi Sunak aims to claim a victory for some of his decisions in No 10. Plus, it’s a significant week fo...

Two of Westminster's best-connected journalists, Sky News' Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard, guide you through their top predictions for the next seven days in British politics.  As fierce fighting continues in the Kharkiv region in Ukraine with Russia claiming it has control of more villages and Israel saying it will proceed with an assault on Rafah, Jack and Sam discuss how foreign affai...