Are the Conservatives now admitting defeat?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 12 June 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Tory frontbencher Grant Shapps has appeared to concede the Tories are now heading for defeat at the election and warned voters against allowing Labour a 'supermajority'. Does scaring people work as a campaign strategy? And is a supermajority a big problem for voters?
We also hear from Lewis, who is on the campaign trail with Lib Dem leader Ed Davey.
And later in the show we talk privilege, class, and pesky questions, after Rishi Sunak was asked what he had to go without when he was growing up.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.4 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.6 | If you want to make sure that in this next government, whoever forms it, that there's a proper system of accountability. We would argue |
| 0:22.2 | that you don't want to have somebody receive a supermajority. It would be very bad news for |
| 0:28.7 | people in this country. That was the Defence Secretary, Grant Shaps, this morning, trying to scare |
| 0:35.6 | voters into believing that Labour is on track for a supermajority that could |
| 0:41.2 | be bad for democracy. Picking up, in essence, on what Rishi Sunak told us at that launch |
| 0:46.7 | yesterday, that if Labour got into power, they'd change the rules and could go on forever and ever. |
| 0:53.0 | The normal mantra in elections is the only poll that matters is the one on polling day. |
| 0:59.0 | We are in it to win it. |
| 1:01.6 | But is Grant Shaps in effect already conceding defeat? |
| 1:07.1 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:11.6 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:13.3 | It's John. |
| 1:13.9 | It's Emily. |
| 1:14.6 | We'll be hearing from Lewis, who's in the West Country, with Ed Davy, no doubt making a splash. |
| 1:20.5 | I don't know. |
| 1:21.4 | I'm imagining them both in a treehouse, in a children's... |
| 1:24.8 | Ed Davy will be falling off something. |
| 1:27.3 | And going, oh, splash. |
| 1:29.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.7 | Because that's what he does. |
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