50 Years Of Labour Victories, But Mostly Defeats
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
This week in 1974 Britain went to the polls in an election that saw the Conservatives lose, but Labour fail to drum up enough enthusiasm to win a majority. Matt asks whether the next election could produce a similar result by speaking to Ann Taylor, who fought her first campaign that year, and whose career mirrors the ups and downs of the Labour Party itself.
Plus: A taster of the latest episode of How to Win an Election, where political masterminds Peter Mandelson, Polly Mackenzie and Daniel Finkelstein discuss how to win deal with Liz Truss.
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| 0:47.0 | Hello I'm Matt Shirley. This is Politics Without the boynbits. Today, half a century of |
| 0:54.8 | labor victories but mostly defeats through the career of Anne Taylor. She first |
| 0:59.8 | stood for election 50 years ago this week and the highs and loads of her career |
| 1:04.6 | seemed to mirror labor's fortunes. So we'll hear her verdict on every labor |
| 1:08.8 | leader from Wilson and Callahan to Foote and Corbin, Blair Brown and now Starmer. |
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