How do Gen Z want to vote? With Armando Iannucci | Westminster Reimagined
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The writer, satirist and broadcaster Armando Iannucci returns to the New Statesman Podcast to co-host our fourth series of Westminster Reimagined.
In this episode, which was recorded in the summer of 2023, Armando and Anoosh visit a group of sixth form students who will be voting for the first time in the upcoming general election. They want to know what how politics is taught in schools, how the students view the UK political party system, and whether the issues that matter to the students are represented by politicians today.
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| 1:18.0 | The New Statesman A Nusch, and I'm Amanda. |
| 1:32.0 | Hello, I'm Anush. And I'm Amanda. Welcome back to Westminster Re-imagined, a special series on the New Statesman podcast that looks at how politics works and if it can be done better. |
| 1:39.0 | In this episode which we recorded this summer, we visited Sir Frederick Gibbard College in Harlow to meet some of the students |
| 1:46.0 | and explore what matters to the next generation of voters. |
| 1:49.2 | And just to reiterate, when we spoke to these students students they were awaiting their exam results |
| 1:53.7 | which they will have of course received by now and we hope they're all enjoying their plans and |
| 1:59.1 | opportunities that they've got lined up. So why did we want to speak to Six Formers, Armando? |
| 2:08.0 | I think there's now a whole set of new voters who've grown up entirely on the way news is conducted on social media. |
| 2:15.3 | I wanted to see how that has affected them. |
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