How will the Tory media deal with a Labour landslide?

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.6 • 825 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Tory papers and their online equivalents are used to setting the agenda, having played their part in successive election victories for the Conservatives. The BBC has tended to be heavily influenced by these newspapers. So how will they respond to a transformed political landscape and how should a Labour government deal with the media? Plus brilliant questions on Farage, the implications of a big majority for Labour and much more. Rock & Roll Politics: The Bonus Election Special is live at Kings Place on June 24th - Tickets here. Rock & Roll Politics is live at the Edinburgh Festival in a new political landscape from Aug11th. Tickets here. Written and presented by Steve Richards Back us on Patreon for bonus podcasts on all the recent strange election campaigns and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know what that is.
0:04.0	An ice cold beer.
0:07.0	What's different?
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0:26.8	Please drink responsibly.
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0:33.3	Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards, and this is
0:41.6	another election special, episode 983 or whatever. I mean, it does seem to be going on a long time
0:48.0	this election, but it has a compelling quality. There's been some brilliant questions, as ever from a lot of you. So we'll come to
0:57.4	them shortly, which will cover a whole range of different themes arising from the election. We've got
1:02.6	more news of one of our barometer focus group voters. We've got big news from Dominica,
1:09.2	Jol, our correspondent in France, and lots of other twists and turns
1:13.0	to come shortly. If it's okay with you, I'm going to reflect a bit on the media and its
1:20.0	relationship with the Labour government if the polls are right, which is kind of just mind-boggling.
1:27.3	On this other podcast, I do, not another one,
1:31.2	with a group of commentators. We posed the question in the last one, and do subscribe.
1:37.7	You get it on a Friday. Is Britain on the edge of a revolution? The polls suggest that the outcome of the election
1:45.3	is a kind of revolution with the Tories under 100 seats, labor with this huge landslide that
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