British physicist Professor Brian Cox has created a new soundtrack for Rishi Sunak’s general election announcement after D:Ream’s 1993 single, “Things Can Only Get Better,” was played loudly as the UK Chancellor declared the poll would take place on 4 July. Cox played keyboard for the pop band in the 1990s and tweeted a clip of Sunak’s speech, which he had re-scored with the instrumental “Il barone rosso” by Luciano Michelini. Ahead of the announcement, Sunak had given an outdoor speech in torrential rain, which Cox called the “most appropriate” time to use the ’90s pop hit.
Sunak said that this was “the moment for Britain to choose its future” outside 10 Downing Street. During a 2016 appearance on Charlie Brooker’s 2016 Wipe, Cox called “Things Can Only Get Better” “one of the most misleading and scientifically inaccurate pop songs that’s ever been written” and said, “It’s just inaccurate, scientifically inaccurate.”
Anti-Brexit protestor Steve Bray, who had been aiming a loudspeaker at the gates of Downing Street, was behind the blasting of “Things Can Only Get Better”. D:Ream is booked to play at Glastonbury 2024, which takes place the week before the elections, and TV critic and broadcaster Scott Bryan suggested: “[Keir] Starmer has the chance to do the funniest thing ever.” Shadow Deputy PM Angela Rayner is scheduled to appear at an election panel in the Left Field alongside Caroline Lucas MP, Danny Sriskandarajah, Stephen Bush and John Harris. The Conservative Party is currently 20 points behind Labour ahead of the elections after losing historic ground in the UK local elections earlier this month.
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