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🗓️ 22 June 2022
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0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
0:11.0 | Today, from north to south, two English by-elections, |
0:16.0 | what they may tell us about the state of British politics |
0:20.0 | and Boris Johnson's beleaguered government. |
0:31.0 | On the face of it, the two English constituencies voting for new MPs tomorrow are not much alike. |
0:39.0 | Tivotan and Honitan is a rural seat in the southwest county of Devon |
0:44.0 | that sprawls from the farmlands of Exmoor to the Jurassic Coast. |
0:49.0 | The Conservatives have held it for more than 100 years. |
0:53.0 | The Conservatives here are defending a huge majority of over 24,000 |
0:58.0 | but they know in the current political climate |
1:01.0 | this traditionally safe Tory seat could be vulnerable. |
1:04.0 | This week, though, the Liberal Democrats are hoping they can snatch it. |
1:09.0 | I am a pulled by Boris Johnson. |
1:11.0 | Absolutely a pulled. |
1:12.0 | It's got no integrity. |
1:14.0 | None at all. He doesn't really care about the people. |
1:16.0 | Meanwhile, Wakefield in West Yorkshire is a former mining community |
1:21.0 | where Labour held power from the 1930s right up to 2019. |
1:26.0 | With Boris Johnson's victory that year, it fell to the Conservatives, |
1:30.0 | one brick from the so-called Red Wall. |
1:34.0 | This week, Labour are desperate to show they can take it back. |
1:39.0 | We need to earn every single vote and that's what I'm doing with the two. |
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