Could the election results still surprise us?
Political Fix
Financial Times
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
With under a week to go until polling day, Lucy Fisher and her panel — the FT’s Miranda Green and Stephen Bush — pull together the threads of the campaign to explore the remaining ‘known unknowns’ in this election. They are joined by FT columnist Simon Kuper whose new book ‘Good Chaps’ looks at the disintegration of public service in our national life and examines how to rid our political system of sleaze.
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Presented by Lucy Fisher.
Produced by Philippa Goodrich and Leah Quinn
Manuela Saragosa is the executive producer. Original music and audio mix by Breen Turner.
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| 0:30.0 | In the final stretch to election day, what could yet surprise us? |
| 0:35.0 | Welcome to political fix from the Financial Times with me Lucy Fisher. |
| 0:40.0 | It's less than a week now till Polling Day and the narrative seems set. |
| 0:44.0 | Labour is headed for an historic victory. |
| 0:47.0 | But what could yet shift the dial? |
| 0:49.0 | To discuss this I'm joined by FT Political Fix regulars Stephen. |
| 0:53.0 | Hi Stephen, Hi Lucy, and Miranda |
| 0:55.0 | Hi Miranda. |
| 0:56.0 | Hello Lucy. |
| 0:57.0 | And joining us in the studio today is our Paris-based colleague Simon Cooper, |
| 1:01.0 | who's just written a very timely book about corruption in the UK. |
| 1:04.8 | Hi Simon. |
| 1:05.8 | Hi everyone, honour to be here. |
| 1:07.8 | Look, we're in the final furlong now. We've had a few developments in the past 2448 hours, haven't we? |
| 1:18.8 | Miranda, let's talk first about what's happened with Reform, this undercover investigation from channel 4, |
| 1:24.7 | it's revealed racist, sexist, Islamophobic comments. |
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