Is the Downing Street Christmas party scandal cutting through? | Polling update with Ben Walker

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🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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New Statesman data journalist Ben Walker joins Anoosh Chakelian, Ailbhe Rea and Stephen Bush in our monthly polling update. They discuss the impact of the No 10 Christmas party revelations, the public’s appetite for Covid restrictions, how inflation could influence the way people vote, and what might happen in the North Shropshire by-election on 16 December.

Then in You Ask Ben: Ben answers listeners' questions on the reliability of snap polling and the desire for Scottish independence.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Anish.
0:03.0	I'm Alfa.
0:04.0	I'm Ben.
0:05.0	On today's New Statesman podcast, Ben Walker, our polling guru, talks about public opinion
0:10.3	on the government, COVID restrictions and the cost of living.
0:15.9	Right, just to interrupt, before we start the podcast proper, I want to bring in this extra
0:28.9	bit of breaking content.
0:30.7	So after we had recorded this month's polling update with Ben Walker of Britain Alex and
0:36.3	the New States and state a team, there was a rather eventful weekend in polling.
0:40.7	So we thought we would get Ben back in to talk about that.
0:43.9	So thanks for joining us again, Ben.
0:45.5	Happy to be here.
0:46.5	Just talk us through, you know, what we've seen over the last 48 hours, as it were.
0:50.8	Yeah, so over the weekend Friday Saturday, Sunday, you often get a slew of pearls.
0:56.0	So I'm for the Sunday papers all off their own bat, and we've seen quite some sudden shifts
1:01.1	in public opinion.
1:02.1	Field work happening mostly over the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th of December.
1:06.5	So it's all happening at the same time.
1:08.5	And they all seem to be quite instantaneous impulse reactions to the revelations about Christmas
1:14.3	party.
1:15.3	Now that we have photo evidence of a party, I can only imagine that this issue isn't going
1:20.6	to go away.
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