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Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips

British Election Study

Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips

Sky News

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.0156 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

As the fallout from the 2017 snap General Election continues into the summer, a little light has been shed on how and why Theresa May lost her overall Commons majority. It's in the shape of the British Election Study which has followed more than 30 thousand voters over the past three years. Brexit was major factor in voters' opinions and can explain a surge in support for Labour among backers of Remain. But there was plenty more detail in the study. To dissect the numbers, Sky's Head of Data Harry Carr is joined by one of the co-ordinators of the study - Chris Prosser from the University of Manchester. #GE2017 #Corbyn #May #Labour #Tories #LibDems #SNP #Brexit

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0:00.0

The next train departing from Platform 1 will take you to city breaks, dates with mates, family get-togethers, and stacks of culture.

0:10.8

Oh, and for those heading to the new exhibition in the city, please remember that even if you don't get it, you can still like it.

0:20.2

When you take the train, you're more connected to the people, places and things you love.

0:26.3

Nothing beats being there.

0:41.2

Hello and welcome to the All Out Politics Podcast. I'm Harry Carr.

0:46.3

The 2017 general election was probably the most shocking since last year.

0:51.8

Today I'm joined by Chris Prosser, a research fellow on the highly respected British election study at an academic at the University of Manchester and

0:54.4

Nuffield College, Oxford, who this week published results of their study around June's

0:59.3

shock general election results.

1:04.9

So, Chris, what happened?

1:07.2

Well, it's a very interesting question, actually, what happened.

1:10.0

It was obviously one of the most dramatic elections, certainly in living memory.

1:14.6

And even if you go back, you know, as far as polls go, it was one of the most dramatic changes ever seen in Britain.

1:22.6

And I think a number of things happened.

1:26.6

And it depends when you want to talk about.

1:29.3

So one of the first things that happened from 2015,

1:34.3

sort of moving on, is that a large number of Labour voters

1:39.3

weren't really sure about Jeremy Corbyn.

1:41.3

And so they were feeling pretty unbillant.

1:43.3

They might have said they were going to ambivalent. They might have said they

1:44.6

were going to vote conservative. A lot of them said they didn't know who they were going to

1:50.0

vote for and that is something that became particularly important once we got into the campaign.

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