4: The 2019 General Election Defeat

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🗓️ 7 February 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Episode 4 focuses on Labour’s crushing 2019 General Election defeat featuring the BBC’s election wizard Professor Sir John Curtice, the New Statesman’s political editor Stephen Bush, and Labour councillor and data analyst Christabel Cooper, who has recently just co-authored a report into the 2019 result for Europe For The Many.

Christobel Cooper's report can be found on Europe For The Many's website.

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0:00.0	Corbinism, the post-mortem, is kindly sponsored by the Media Masters podcast, a series of one-to-one
0:06.1	interviews with the very biggest media names, hosted by Paul Blanchard. You can tune in any time at
0:11.7	Mediamasters.fm.m. And now, here's the show. This is obviously a very disappointing night
0:19.0	for the Labour Party. I want to also make it clear that I will not lead the party in any future general election campaign.
0:28.6	I will discuss with our party to ensure there is a process now of reflection on this result
0:36.6	and on the policies that the party will take going forward.
0:43.6	It's not Corbynism. There is no such thing as Corbynism.
0:48.6	In 2017, British Prime Minister Theresa May, buoyed by a double-digit polling lead, decided to hold a snap election in the hopes of strengthening her Commons majority to ease the passing of her Brexit legislation through Parliament.
1:01.7	May ran a woeful and robotic campaign and Jeremy Corbyn, still riding a wave of popularity among the Labour membership, was able to cobble together enough of an electoral
1:10.9	coalition of levers and remainers that would ultimately deny Mayor's majority.
1:16.3	Labour still lost the election, but in inflicting a Pyrrhic victory on the government,
1:21.1	Corbyn had managed to silence the critics that had prophesied his doom, and now looked
1:25.8	like they had the potential to be a government in waiting.
1:28.8	In the end, however, 2017 represented the high watermark for Corbinism
1:33.3	and his popularity figures began plummeting until he became the least popular opposition
1:38.1	leader in the history of British political polling. The prophecies were ultimately proved
1:42.9	correct and in 2019, Labor was handed
1:45.9	its worst electoral defeat in 85 years. But why did Labor go backwards after 2017? And what
1:52.1	decisions did the Labour leadership make that led to such a historic defeat? Hello and welcome
1:57.0	to Corbinism the post-mortem. I'm your host, Oz Catterjee, and in this episode,
2:01.9	we will be exploring Labour's abysmal performance in the 2019 general election. Joining me on part
2:07.3	one of the show is the BBC's regular election polling wizard, the University of Strathclyde's
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