Electioncast: What Is Labour Doing Abbott Candidate Selection?
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at how fighting within the Labour party over who should be their general election candidates is only the latest turn in a long running battle between different its different political wings.
Laura and Paddy look at what it’s meant for the campaign so far, and they discuss the Lib Dem’s strategy.
Plus - we answer questions from Newscasters including, what do polls actually tell us?
Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell. It was made by Chris Flynn with Arsenii Sokolov. The technical producer was Gareth Jones. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Laura Coonsburg as I live and breathe. |
| 0:06.8 | Patiocodel, you wear a jacket? |
| 0:08.9 | Yes, I'm told that parts of this will be televised. |
| 0:12.4 | Okay, well I'll sit up straight then. |
| 0:14.0 | I still got my sneaks on, is that all right on the tilly? |
| 0:17.0 | Could we say week one of the election campaign, |
| 0:20.0 | the Conservatives drop the ball with the rain-drenched fiasco and week two Labour |
| 0:24.4 | dropped the ball with the Diane Abbot on again off again. |
| 0:26.9 | I think we can absolutely say that. I think we would absolutely say that that Labour lost |
| 0:31.4 | some days of its very carefully choreographed grid with an avoidable mistake born of not |
| 0:38.1 | dealing with a long-term issue between the party leadership and Diana but icon of the left prominent a friend |
| 0:45.8 | and ally of Jeremy Corbyn and the on again off again embarrassment around her |
| 0:51.0 | position in the party has been not just distracting but also I think quite damaging with some voters. |
| 0:56.0 | We'll get into that. Can you reveal from your context book did your phone burst into life with a message of interest this week? |
| 1:02.0 | Well what was interesting is most people this week |
| 1:04.1 | in the political firmament were talking about Diane Abbott. |
| 1:06.5 | They were not talking about the big shape of the campaign |
| 1:09.2 | or even the quite few more policies that the conservatives put out and I think what's interesting |
| 1:15.2 | about well there are lots of interesting things about it but the row over Diane Abbott |
| 1:20.3 | does not seem at this stage to be turning into something that would threaten |
| 1:23.6 | labour's dominance thus far the polls just ain't really budging. However it |
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