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Politics Unpacked

Focus Group: Wakefield 09-06-22

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley is joined by James Johnson from Kekst CNC who has convened the latest Times Radio Focus Group of people from Wakefield, who all voted Conservative for the first time in 2019. Find out what they think of Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer ahead of the constituency's by-election on the 23rd of June.


PLUS: James Marriott and India Knight discuss whether second homes are immoral, and why James hates twee.



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0:00.0

Hello, this is the Webbox Podcast. I'm Matt Cholley, bringing you the best of my Times

0:08.0

Radio Show. Don't forget to listen on your DAB radio smart speaker or on the Freak Times

0:12.5

Radio app. And if you want to come on the radio and play the quiz, email me now with your

0:15.9

name and number studio at Times. Radio. If you want to play Canyon, get to number 10.

0:19.4

Well, even send you a certificate. That's not a well-impressed year for it. Right, coming

0:23.0

up on today's episode, it's our monthly Times Radio focus group with KexCNC, James Johnson

0:28.5

is in the chair. Today, he's been speaking to former Conservative voters, 2019 Conservative

0:35.1

voters in Wakefield as a by-election coming up on June 23rd. Find out what they think

0:41.0

about Boris Johnson and partygate, but also a key star. First, though, as ever, on

0:46.0

a Thursday we kick off with our Communist panel and it's night at the Marriott. It's

0:49.0

India night and James Marriott. The colonists with night at the Marriott,

0:55.4

India night and James Marriott on Times Radio.

0:59.0

Yeah, lovely stuff. It's time for night at the Marriott. India night is on the line. Hello,

1:05.0

India. Good morning. And in the studio, all dressed in very funerial today, James Marriott.

1:09.9

All of the black. Oh, it's blue. I'm wearing blue jeans.

1:13.1

This shirt's actually polka-dotted, so I strongly resent that. You've got your exciting

1:18.2

pink shirt on. Anyway, let's talk about second homes. Are they immobile?

1:26.0

The government is part of Boris Johnson's announcements day on various things getting

1:29.6

people on the housing level and that sort of thing. One of the things they're going to

1:34.2

do is looking at doing more so that places with lots of second homes can use poverty council

1:42.7

tax to try and dissuade the Michael Gove was on time fairly this morning. He said he

1:46.8

didn't think they were immobile, but it's important to recognise that when you have people

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