Coffee House Shots live: election aftermath
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
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🗓️ 14 July 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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The team also answer a range of audience questions, including: how will the Conservatives win voters back? Is Nigel Farage here to stay? And what's their verdict on Labour's first week?
Produced by Patrick Gibbons and Megan McElroy.
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| 0:03.4 | Kowd UK forward slash trial. Welcome to the Emmanuel Center and to a live edition of Coffey House Shots. I'm Frise Nelson and I'm joined by Katie Bowles, Kate Andrews, and Sir Jacob Rees Smog, who was until recently MP for Somerset. |
| 0:37.0 | Now, let's stop having a quick look at the electoral landscape. |
| 0:41.0 | Rather a lot of red, to my delight, not very much yellow up there in Scotland. |
| 0:45.0 | I think it was one of the best things about this general election. |
| 0:48.7 | The blue dots are few and far between. |
| 0:51.7 | If you have a look at the voting, proportion of people who voted for |
| 0:54.4 | labor is 34%. That is the lowest proportion of voters who have chosen, who voted for a |
| 1:00.2 | governing party in the history of our post-war elections. |
| 1:04.1 | Now, Labour got lower than any opinion pollster predicted. |
| 1:08.3 | So I think that's quite significant as well. |
| 1:10.1 | We were told for months on end |
| 1:11.9 | that there was a 20- point lead over the Conservatives. |
| 1:15.0 | A 20 point gap wasn't going to be closed and it wasn't closed, but in the end it was 10 |
| 1:20.0 | between Labour and the Conservatives. So that is quite significant and to my mind |
| 1:27.0 | it means all this to play for at the next general election. Now when you look at |
| 1:31.6 | the two main party votes share it was less than 50%. |
| 1:35.0 | Again this is the first time this has happened since 1918. |
| 1:38.0 | So you've got lots of parties voting for a third sometimes fourth parties. So I think the two main |
| 1:44.2 | parties have got quite a lot still in flux. Now this is one of the major things |
| 1:50.0 | that we saw. The Muslim vote is not a phrase which we're used to saying when we |
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