Bolt from the blue: Britain’s Conservatives triumph
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
A thumping win for Boris Johnson’s Tory party is more complex than it seems; the returns cast a light on changes bubbling under the surface of the country’s politics. A renewed push for land restitution in Kenya is making life hard for foreign firms. And the hardcore safety training that Chinese students think they need before heading to the West. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/radiooffer
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:09.0 | Every weekday, we provide fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:18.0 | After Kenya shook off British rule in the 1960s, land was divided largely among the politically connected. |
| 0:24.9 | With a newly devolved government, there's a push toward restitution of land to the dispossessed, |
| 0:30.0 | but that too looks more political than principled. |
| 0:33.5 | And our correspondent goes along to witness some hardcore training, in dealing with knife attacks, active shooters, even cybersecurity and first aid. |
| 0:43.1 | It's not education for law enforcement. |
| 0:45.7 | It's for Chinese students about to head to the West. |
| 0:56.4 | First up, though. |
| 1:04.5 | This morning, Britain's Conservative Party celebrates a dramatic election victory in which it won parliamentary seats all over the country. |
| 1:09.9 | The Tories won in places that have been in the hands of the opposition Labour Party for generations. |
| 1:15.6 | I've got work with everyone in the town to make it a world-class place. |
| 1:21.6 | Like Grimsby, which elected its first Conservative Member of Parliament since the Second World War, Leonici. |
| 1:30.6 | Yeah, I mean, it's epic. We've made history, haven't we? |
| 1:35.0 | She told the economist she won because her party had a clear pro-Brexit message. |
| 1:39.2 | I think people, people, it was a high Brexit voting area. People wanted that honoured. |
| 1:41.7 | I've promised that I'm going to honour that, and I think that's important. |
| 1:46.8 | Even in places where most people wanted to remain in the European Union, many voters picked conservative candidates. |
| 1:47.9 | Rob, Dominic Rennie, 31,000. |
| 1:52.9 | In 2016, the constituency of Isher and Walton voted to remain in the EU, but last night |
| 1:58.7 | it re-elected hard Brexiteer Dominic Rob. |
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