Focus Group: I Haven't Heard Of Him
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
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🗓️ 25 May 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Undecided voters from across England make up this month's Times Radio Focus Group. They give their verdict on record levels of net migration, and their damning assessment of Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer (provided they'd even heard of the Labour leader).
Matt is joined by James Johnson of J.L. Partners to analyse their answers.
Plus Manveen Rana and Matthew Bell discuss Labour talking tough on immigration, the Times investigation into online fraud, and whether the Chelsea Flower Show is a festival of smugness.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is the Redbox Podcast. I'm Matt Shorey bringing you the best of my times |
| 0:08.0 | radio show. Don't forget you can listen live Monday, Friday, 10-till-one on your DAB radio, |
| 0:12.6 | on your SmartSpeaker, on the Times radio app. But if you do listen to Times radio, tell |
| 0:17.0 | your friends. It's quite good. So, you know, drop your friends a text or a note or something |
| 0:20.7 | to be nice. Right, coming up on today's episode, it's our latest times radio focus group. |
| 0:25.7 | We ask a panel of swing voters what they think of the big political issues of the day with |
| 0:30.5 | a particular focus this month on immigration. As those new figures show a big rise in their |
| 0:36.0 | migration. That's coming up in just a moment. But first, as ever, on a Thursday, it's |
| 0:39.9 | time for Manvine and someone. Manvine Rana. And someone called Matthew on Times radio. |
| 0:49.7 | Let me say hello to Stuart Vartheim's host, Manvine Rana. Hi, Manvine. Hello. And I'm |
| 0:56.2 | very excited about this. Today's Matthew. We have a different Matthew every week. Is Matthew |
| 1:01.7 | Bell now travel right at the Sunday Times? But more importantly, a former colleague of mine |
| 1:06.3 | from the independent on Sunday. Hello, Matthew. Hello, Matt. Very good to see you again. |
| 1:11.4 | It's been a long time. It's been a long time, isn't it? Sadly, the independent on Sunday |
| 1:16.2 | and no longer with us. Do you think as if they couldn't cope without us? Well, I mean, |
| 1:20.0 | clearly not. Were you still there? I can't remember. Were you still there at the end? |
| 1:23.4 | I left the Titanic a few months before it sang. You see the concoke, the concoke without |
| 1:27.6 | us? No. Well, here we are. We are. We are. It is what it is. It's lovely to have you here. |
| 1:33.7 | It's very nice. Thank you. I'm honored to be the token Matthew. You are the token bloke, |
| 1:40.5 | which is very important. I was wondering where the decks of Matthews, I'm sure. |
| 1:43.9 | Honestly, it's harder to find Matthews than you'd think sometimes. I'm not suggesting |
| 1:47.2 | that's an indicative of your book, but it's nice. It's nice that you're here. Right. |
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