Coffee House Shots: will the issue of trust decide the election?
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🗓️ 6 December 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Presented by Katy Balls.
Coffee House Shots is a series of podcasts on British politics from the Spectator's political team and special guests. Brought to you daily, click here to find more episodes that are not released on Spectator Radio.
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| 0:17.3 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, Spectators Daily Daily and these days more than daily politics podcast. |
| 0:23.8 | Under a week to go until polling day, tonight we'll see the final, I suppose, of the big television moments as Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson meet in a head-to-head debate on the BBC. |
| 0:34.3 | We'll be bringing you a podcast after that happens. But for now in the build-up, James, we've seen Jeremy Corbyn try to get on the BBC. We'll be bringing you a podcast after that happens. But for now in the build-up, |
| 0:39.2 | James, we've seen Jeremy Corbyn try to get on the front foot in his campaign this morning, |
| 0:43.3 | revealing a document which he says shows that Boris Johnson has not been telling the truth on his |
| 0:48.9 | Brexit plans and what it means for relations between Northern Ireland and the rest of the |
| 0:53.1 | United Kingdom. |
| 0:55.1 | Can you tell us about that? |
| 1:00.3 | So he has got a document saying that this proves that there would need to be kind of customs declarations filled out, |
| 1:03.8 | that there would be forms filled in, something that Boris Johnson has going to consistently said, |
| 1:04.9 | there won't be. |
| 1:09.6 | I think there are two problems with this as an electoral strategy. |
| 1:12.6 | First of all, rather shamefully, I think most British voters don't particularly care about Northern Ireland. And so I don't think the idea that this Brexit deal |
| 1:18.0 | would have that impact on Northern Ireland. I don't think that's going to change many voters' behaviour. |
| 1:22.9 | And I think the second problem is for those voters who do care about Northern Ireland, they remember |
| 1:27.4 | how Jeremy |
| 1:29.1 | Corbyn behaved during the troubles, you know, inviting an IRA bomber to Parliament shortly after |
| 1:33.7 | the Brighton bomb and other such activities. So I think that is the problem for Jeremy Corbyn, |
| 1:39.8 | which is, you know, you've got Boris Johnson saying on the one hand, I've got this a Brexit deal |
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