what is there in the election for young voters? national service, reform, covered in the cost of living crisis? what is in it for you? and rishi sunak says he is incredibly angry about the betting scandal. good evening live from the newsnight studio, where our guests, young, old, well, older and somewhere in between, entertain us with interviews and searing, late night insight. we shouted out for younger voters to get in touch about how they re feeling about the election. 26 year old harrison from bournemouth came straight back. hello, newsnight, definitely feeling ignored during this campaign. six months ago, i had to quit myjob in watford and move back home to live with my parents in bournemouth with the cost of renting being the leading factor in my decision. i simply couldn t afford to live where i worked. i haven t heard anything from any of the political parties during this campaign that i think will materially improve the lives for young people. we ve got a stuffed so
it does feel for you, doesn t it, rather like it s not stopped raining since the day you walked out of downing street to announce this election? well, what i d say is, i ve been out and about every day since this election campaign started, talking to people about the choice, as you said, at this election, because it s an important moment for our country. we ve been through a tough few years and i do believe, at this point, we have turned a corner and now is the chance for us to build on the progress that we ve made. and i want to deliver a more secure future for everyone in our country, and i believe i m the right person to do that. because we ve got a plan that is clearly working on the economy although, of course, there s more to go and i m prepared to take the bold action that s necessary to do that. and that s what i m energised to talk to people about. we ll talk about the plan, we ll talk about the policy. first of all, though, and you know that this is what people
news of another cyber this time affecting several large london hospitals, being described as a major cyber attack. services including the delivery of blood transfusions have been affected, according to memos are sent to nhs staff. we know that the king s couege staff. we know that the king s college hospital and guy s and saint thomases are amongst the hospital is experiencing problems, with some operations reported to have been cancelled or redirected. we will talk to one of a health correspondence about this shortly. more on that story, the breaking story coming up for you. let s continue with the general election campaign. the big news today is rishi sunak and sir keir starmer will go head to head in their first televised debate of the general election campaign tonight. the hour long programme on itv will be filmed in front of a live studio audience. it comes as the conservatives have promised to introduce a yearly cap on the number of migrant visas, while labour has accus
I like their policies at the moment, i want to leave the European Union and i think theresa may is the only person who will get us out of the European Union with a reasonable deal. Labour. Ive always been labour. And our panel will tell us where theresa may sits on our map of the political terrain. Hello. Some of us remember the heydey of tv advertising. Consumer brands washing powders and the like would constantly market themselves as new and improved. Never mind that they were less than perfect before, as long as you now understood that they are better than ever. Well, the Conservative Party is pitching itself as new and improved today as well. A theresa may manifesto, with a pretty different emphasis to past efforts. A section entitled we believe in the good that government can do, for example. Some will say its just marketing, others will see it as substantive change. Certainly, the emphasis on scaling back the relative generosity displayed to the elderly is a notable shift. The po