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Chopper's Politics

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🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this emergency local elections special, Christopher Hope is joined by pollster Martin Baxter from Electoral Calculus and the Telegraph's Political Editor Ben Riley-Smith to chew the fat as the results keep coming in. What impact would these results have if they were mirrored in a general election, have they helped or hindered party leaders, and should politicos keep a keen eye on another potential C-word (whisper it listeners, coalition).

Plus MP for Yeovil Marcus Fysh on losing local councils to the Lib Dems, and whether he has faith in the Prime Minister going forward.

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0:00.0	Coming up on Chopper's politics.
0:05.0	What I find so fascinating about the numbers Martin just reached out is it leads to the
0:09.7	C word in politics which is coalition.
0:12.4	If labor get there.
0:13.0	Heavy Tory losses in London,
0:19.0	Labour struggling outside the capital
0:22.0	and the Liberal Democrats.
0:24.1	Yes, the Liberal Democrats encroaching in the southwest.
0:28.0	That's right, it's a local election special of Chopper's politics.
0:32.0	And I'm Christopher Hope, the Associate Editor Politics at the Daily Telegraph. Now joining me to discuss the results from Thursday night and Friday afternoon and give reflections on the local elections is a
0:44.9	telegraph political editor Ben Riley Smith and from the polling company
0:49.8	Electoral Calculus Martin Baxter.
0:53.4	Ben Ryanley Smith and Martin Baxter, thank you for joining us this week on Chophos Politics.
0:59.4	Ben Ryanley Smith to you first.
1:01.7	Millions have been voting across the UK in these elections. Who has won?
1:06.1	Well the phrase everybody keeps on saying is mixed picture which is a bit of cop-out for
1:09.8	journalists and helpful for politicians who are trying to defend how they've done.
1:13.4	I think the big picture is not a great night for Boris Johnson.
1:16.8	In London they were decimated, three Tory councils gone to Labour, Westminster, Wandsworth and
1:22.0	Barnett, and also the Liddedens eating into their traditional heartlands in the blue wall.
1:27.0	So Liddedens took control of Somerset Council, David Cameron's old patch in West Oxfordshire.
1:32.0	The Liddedens knocked the Tories off control there.
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