Focus Group: Meek Sunak and Slimy Starmer
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
It's bad news for both Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer in the latest Times Radio Focus group, with voters taking a dim view of David Cameron's return and Suella Braverman's departure - and it's not much better news for the Labour leader. James Johnson of J.L. Partners joins Matt to discuss the results.
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| 1:11.8 | episode we've got the latest Times Radio focus group. |
| 1:15.0 | We've been doing them every month since Times Radio launched back in June 2020 |
| 1:19.5 | with James Johnson, former Number 10 Polster, who asks a panel of voters for their |
| 1:24.5 | assessment what's going on in politics is not the same as a poll but it gives us a |
| 1:28.1 | sense of the mood and what will voters are saying and James has concluded that today's is the worst group we've |
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