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
pick up on thatjk rowling story, digging into keir starmer. ji< digging into keir starmer. jif; rowling, as we know, feels very strongly about this. she is a very strongly about this. she is a very strong supporter of rosie duffield, the labour mp, sorry, the labour candidate, who believe she has not been supported by the labour party. jk been supported by the labour party. jk rowling might actually have a bit of impact? she jk rowling might actually have a bit of imact? ,, . ., , jk rowling might actually have a bit ofimact? ,, . ., y,, ., jk rowling might actually have a bit ofimact? ,, . . y,, ., ., of impact? she clearly speaks for a lot of peeple of impact? she clearly speaks for a lot of people and of impact? she clearly speaks for a lot of people and there of impact? she clearly speaks for a lot of people and there are - of impact? she clearly speaks for a lot of people and there are a - of impact? she clearly speaks for a lot of people and there are a lot. of im
that looks like a real blunder. and a cabinet minister said to me, you ve got a $100 million bill lying on the floor and you don t pick it up. so it s notjust the mistake, it s also the lost opportunity of the mistake. and laura, last night when we did newscast, you mentioned that text you d had about somebody saying, this is just the worst operation ever. and as i was going to bed last night, i was like, i wish i d asked laura more about that, because that s an amazing quote. not to get you to reveal your sources, but what sort of people are messaging you with that stuff now? is this, like, candidates? is this, like, former friends of rishi sunak? i think it s what. the sense i have, henry, and i don t know if you would agree with this, is that what is happening now, it seems to me almost every day, the group of people who are still really putting their shoulder to the wheel in this campaign is shrinking and shrinking and shrinking. and there are more people, including
we and some of our other kind of bestjournalistic pals in the bbc get together every night, chew over what s happened in the election that day and then publish it as a podcast, which is newscast. and you can get that every night wherever you get your podcasts. and it sjust, for me, as a journalist, it s a really kind of fun, but also kind of in depth way ofjust processing what s happened in this big, crazy news event, which is the general election of 202a. that s right. and i think what we also try to do is open up our notebooks and give people more of the kind of conversations that you have with politicians, advisers, staffers, privately and some of the things, frankly, that you can t necessarily fit into a news bulletin when you ve got 60 seconds or two and a half minutes to explain a story. and we also want to hear from you and you in the next half hour can get in touch with us. newscast@bbc.co.uk if you re that way inclined. we love to hear people s views as we chew thr