Nick Ferrari: LBC Breakfast host predicts massive win for Labour in UK Election

The UK election is set to confirm a landslide Labour victory after 14 years of Tory rule.

LBC Breakfast Host Nick Ferrari told Mike Hosking Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer could have his work cut out for him, wrangling what might be the largest majority since the mid-1800s.

He says this is the job Sir Keir has dreamt of since he was a boy.

Ferrari says in many ways, the real challenge begins once he crosses the threshold of Number 10 Downing St.

The final results are expected after 4 this afternoon.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Back to Britain history unfolding. Voting day comes to an end.
Your government has been well. They're going to be announced
about nine o'clock this morning. The LBC brickfasides Nick Ferrari's
where's Nick? Morning?

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yeah, Hi, good morning. Listen. Apologies for the background noise.
I'm at a music festival my part. There's certy Ellis
Bexter playing now and it would be murrer on the
dance floor for me if I hadn't come here with
my girlfriend. So good to have the AUGI discrye with
you guys. It's all well over there.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Everything's well over here. How big a party are the
Labor Party going to have in a couple of hours
do you think?

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Oh? Look, I think you're looking at a huge one.
The biggest majority to date is one hundred and seventy nine.
That the first Tony Blair presidency. The poll that closed
the elections in the UK last night is predicted two
hundred and twelve. That would take us back to the
majority we've not seen in the United Kingdom since the
mid eighteen hundreds. Personally, I don't think we get to

(00:53):
two hundred and twelve. You get to a whopping the
way a whopping labor with I would have thought it's
definitely three figures one, twenty one, thirty one, forty and
Rishie Sunak, who remember called the election in the middle
of a downpour, I think, is into a deluge of
voters going against the Conservatives.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Does he lose his seat?

Speaker 2 (01:12):
It looks like he's okay. That's a very good question.
And had you asked me yeah recently as two weeks ago,
I'd have thought there's a real problem. There's something quite
interesting in British politics. Voters like to think they have
the PM as their quote local MP. So yet he
was under pressure. I could now bore your listeners to
death with various polls that would show the swing would

(01:33):
be big enough. But I think it's this extraordinary thing,
the thing that the PM enjoys that you hang on.
So I think Rishi will survive. I don't know how
far down the batting or do you want to go,
But you're looking at chancells and defense secretaries who I
think are very nervous tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Is Starmer up to running such a large party in government?

Speaker 2 (01:54):
What a good question. I refer you to some TV debates,
one at which he was started to say about how
his father was a tool maker. Everybody laughed, and everybody
laughs because we have heard this line every single time
and he didn't take well to it. His issue is
simply this. If he has a stalking majority, that means

(02:14):
that just as the Conservatives are riven into and I
fully accept that, so are the Labor Party. There is
a hardcore, a momentum side of the Labor Party that
is very much to the left, that is up for
increasing taxation, up for the Palestinian side in the Middle
East debate. We are about to see Sekeir Starmer's political skills.
This is the job he's dreamt of since being a boy.

(02:37):
I will tell you now he will cross the threshold
at some point later tonight English British time or tomorrow morning.
Then in many ways, actually his biggest challenge begins.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
There are they voting today for policies that they know
and understand in Labor or simply because they don't like
the Tories anymore?

Speaker 2 (02:55):
The latter I think if you could simply have candidates
and say we don't want the Tours, would win every
single possible seat. Look, I'm old enough to have been
around back when Tony Blair first came to power and
I can tell you there was a genuine zeal. There
was an enthusiasm. There was a belief in a better
Britain than Tony Blair as a young prime minister espouse.

(03:15):
So Kia will go in actually as one of the
older prime ministers when he starts work. Admittedly we're not
looking at the United States situation here, but it is
very much dissatisfaction with a conservative fourteen and a bit
years how a puddle has been completely drained. That is
what's driving the votes in the UK.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
And Nick Farag, how many seats do you reckon?

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Okay? Uh Fag told me at the start he thought
he could get to five. I think he's singing in
a little. The predictions are he gets three, he wins
eighth time out. Remember eighth time he becomes a winner
in tractaon in Essex, the second biggest Brexit voting community
or constituency in the whole of the country. He gets that.

(03:58):
Richard ties the man as won't know, but he's big
in the in politics here. He gets probably three to four,
I would suggest, but remember our bazaar first part. The
post system means he'll get plenty of votes, he won't
get plenty.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Of mp Good to see you, make you go, enjoy
your party, Appreciate it very much. Nick Ferrari out of
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