Focus Group: The Guy Just Makes Me Cringe
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In the first Times Radio Focus Group of 2024, we hear from 2019 Conservative voters who now say they've switched to Labour. Rishi Sunak is out of touch and makes them cringe, but Keir Starmer lacks the 'X factor' and reminds them of Marvin the Paranoid Android. James Johnson of J.L. Partners joins Matt to discuss the results.
Plus: Columnists Manveen Rana and Matthew Parris discuss whether the latest Tory MPs to quit politics did so out of principle or to land a lucrative new job, whether they regret not writing about the post office scandal, and whether it's acceptable to email jokes to your colleagues.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Matt Chorley, and this is Politics Without the Boring Bits. |
| 0:08.8 | Somebody else has been in touch Foster Man 53. |
| 0:12.0 | Great, but lose the pick, he says that's his review of the podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | I've been a regular listener enjoy the podcast for about the last year, |
| 0:18.0 | but honestly have dropped off a bit since you put your mug shot on the cover. |
| 0:22.0 | Freaks me out a bit, Can you consider changing it please? |
| 0:24.9 | Well I can't change my face and why are you looking at it while you're listening to the |
| 0:29.3 | podcast? Surely you just set it playing and then go off and do some other things. |
| 0:33.4 | Anyway, for now at least, my face is staying as it is. |
| 0:36.7 | But thank you for listening to politics about the boring bits. |
| 0:38.8 | Do tell your friends in all the usual ways. |
| 0:41.1 | Coming up on today's episode, it's a cracker. It's the latest Times |
| 0:44.4 | radio focus group. Every month we ask James Johnson, former number 10 |
| 0:48.9 | pollster for Theresa May, to sit down with some real voters to get their take on the political scene. |
| 0:54.0 | Today it's people who voted Conservative in 2019 |
| 0:57.6 | now saying they'll vote Labour, |
| 0:59.7 | but their verdict on Rishi Sunak is brutal. |
| 1:02.7 | It's not much better for Kirstama. |
| 1:05.0 | They quite like this guy called Nigel Farage. |
| 1:07.7 | It's a hell of a listen. |
| 1:08.4 | It'll be brutal listening actually, |
| 1:09.4 | whether you're inside Tory HQ |
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