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🗓️ 31 August 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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0:00.0 | Donald Trump is heading back to the White House. |
0:03.1 | Together we can truly make America great again. |
0:06.7 | We are in for an unpredictable but fascinating four years. |
0:10.3 | And we're going to be following every twist and turn for the first 100 days. |
0:15.0 | We'll be bringing you the latest updates and analysis first thing every morning. |
0:19.5 | So join me, James Mackey. |
0:21.3 | Me, Martha Kalnick. |
0:22.3 | And me, Mark Stone, for Trump 100 every weekday at 6am, wherever you get your podcast. |
0:32.8 | Hello and welcome to the All Out Politics podcast. I'm Harry Carr. |
0:42.3 | You often hear complaints about people with friends in high places being parachuted into safe parliamentary seats, but is that charge really fair? |
0:49.1 | Well, the think tank Demos has conducted some analysis to shed some light. |
0:52.8 | Here to talk through that, together with the other news this week, |
0:55.1 | are Sophie Gaston of Demos and Sky News political correspondent Lewis Goodall. |
1:03.9 | So Sophie, what did you find out? |
1:06.2 | So we have created a dataset where we've looked at all 650 MPs elected in the 2017 general election. |
1:16.4 | And we went through every single one of them one by one to see how many of them are actually local to their constituents. |
1:23.6 | And by local we mean that they were either born or went to school or lived for the |
1:29.8 | five years prior to being elected within 20 kilometres of their constituencies boundaries. And what we found |
1:36.9 | was that only about half of MPs in the UK are local to their constituencies. And even more |
1:43.0 | striking is that there's really considerable |
1:45.0 | differences between the parties. So Labour MPs are basically twice as likely to be local to their |
1:51.4 | constituencies than conservatives. And do you have a theory as to why that is? |
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