Ireland's Abortion Vote, Italy and Political Nostalgia
Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips
Sky News
4.0 • 156 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2018
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Joining Adam this week are Sky's senior political correspondent Beth Rigby, Europe correspondent Mark Stone in Rome, Head of International Research at Demos Sophie Gaston and the Head of Sky Data Harry Carr.
#IrelandReferendum #Italy #Nostalgia #SkyNews
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| 0:48.6 | Hello, welcome to the All-Out Politics Podcast. |
| 0:51.1 | I'm Adam Bolton and joining me this week, Sky's News's senior political correspondent, Beth Rigby, fresh back from Ireland. |
| 0:59.0 | Demos is head of international research, Sophie Gaston, and our head of Sky Data, Harry Carr. This week, we are going to talk about that historic abortion referendum in Ireland, about the political chaos as Italy tries to form a government. |
| 1:14.5 | And also things ain't as good as they used to be. A study by Demos and Sky Data suggests that |
| 1:20.1 | many of us think things can only get worse. |
| 1:26.4 | Talk about that in a moment. But first of all, what many in Ireland regarded as a major step forward for social justice, the result of their referendum, which pitted on the side of progress in inverted commas, the Prime Minister against the no campaign to changing the |
| 1:47.1 | constitutional ban on abortion. Today is a historic day for Ireland. A quiet revolution has taken |
| 1:56.2 | place and today is a great act of democracy. A hundred years since women gained the right to vote. |
| 2:02.9 | Today we as a people have spoken |
| 2:04.8 | and we say that we trust women and respect women |
| 2:08.1 | to make their own decisions and their own choices. |
| 2:11.6 | For me it's also a day when we say no more. |
| 2:15.0 | No more to doctors telling their patients that there's nothing can be done for them |
| 2:19.0 | in their own country. No more lonely journeys across the Irish Sea. No more stigma as the veil |
| 2:25.8 | of secrecy is lifted. And no more isolation as the burden of shame is gone. I am surprised at the |
| 2:32.7 | scale of the vote certainly. And I feel that it's a sad day for Ireland |
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