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Politics Unpacked

Debate Special: Can Corbyn become prime minister?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News, Politics, News & Politics

4.11.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The first Red Box debate of conference season comes from Brighton, Matt Chorley welcomes Times senior political correspondent Lucy Fisher, Times columnist Philip Collins, and journalist Rachel Shabi, to try and answer whether Corbyn can become prime minister?In an extended podcast, the panel grapple with the key issues surrounding the topic before taking questions from the audience. **NB: the start of this episode sounds a bit "wedding disco" don't worry it's only for the first thirty seconds**

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0:56.4

Feel good travel. Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast on The Times. I'm Mac Surely.

1:10.0

There's a special episode recorded live at a Times Plus event in Brighton.

1:15.0

That applause was so loud, is almost sarcastic. I'm joined by a stellar panel.

1:29.0

Lucy Fisher, senior police, correspondent of the Times, Philip Collins, Times Leader Writer,

1:34.6

Colonist and former Speech Writer for Tony Blair and Rachel Shabbi a regular on Red Box and

1:39.9

Corbyn expert. We're here in Brighton. It's the start at the Labour Party Conference. The main question we're going to try and answer is, given what happened in June this year, will Jeremy Corbyn become Prime Minister.

1:52.8

So we'll start with you then, Phil, you volunteered for yourself.

1:55.0

What's your...

1:56.0

Let's start with that question, we'll talk afterwards about the German Electric campaign.

1:59.0

What do you think are the chances of Jeremy Corbyn becoming Prime Minister?

2:02.0

Well, it was interesting you changed the question from the advertised question which was can Jeremy Corbyn

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