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Politics Unpacked

Dominic Sandbrook's Favourite Elections

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Times Columnist and The Rest Is History co-host Dominic Sandbrook joins Matt to talk about how this election campaign compares to others throughout the post-war period, and how our current crop of politicians will be remembered in the history books.


Plus: Former Number 10 adviser Cleo Watson tells Matt about her latest political 'bonkbuster', Cleavage, and 'Liz Truss' reads out some of the naughtiest bits.


Cleo Watson: (03:30)

Dominic Sandbrook: (12:30)



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0:00.0

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0:06.0

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0:11.8

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0:15.8

of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses

0:20.6

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1:10.2

Coming up on today's episode, how does this election compare to those over the last

1:16.0

half century? Who better to ask than a historian Times columnist and the rest is

1:21.0

history podcast co-host Dominic Samba.

1:24.1

Really fascinating conversation about the different general elections and how the media has changed over time

1:30.9

and how Ed Davies basically conducting a one-man meta deconstruction of the concept

1:36.5

of a general election campaign. Before that, some absolute filth. Cleo Watson, former advisor to Boris Johnson, Theresa May, worked on the referendum

1:47.0

campaign for Leave, Vote Leave with Dominic Cummings in 2016.

1:50.0

She's written a second saucy book. It's called Cleavage and it is filthy we've got a very

1:56.0

special voice to read you extracts from it and if you like what you're here on the

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