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Politics Unpacked

Loony tunes

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley meets Alan “Howling Laud” Hope, leader of the Monster Raving Loony Party and veteran of eight general elections, and asks: what’s the point?


PLUS: Esther Webber rounds up the week, including TV debates, manifesto muddles and an “impromptu rally”.



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0:00.0

We are postponing further cuts in corporation tax.

0:04.4

It is sometimes claimed that I am anti-business.

0:08.0

Made the position clear, we will have a referendum.

0:12.4

Does the truth matter? I think it does and I think it very

0:16.9

important. I built to introduce universal basic income with free high

0:22.0

quality child care.

0:23.2

A threshold for national insurance.

0:25.6

Rail, male, water and energy into public ownership.

0:31.4

Hello, welcome to the Web Box Politics Podcast and The Times. I'm Matt Jorley. A cracking Friday episode

0:38.0

for you this week. We've got a special chat with a party leader no less.

0:43.4

Alan Howling Lord Hope, leader of the Monster Waving Looney Party explains why on earth he stood

0:49.1

in dozens of general elections and by elections without success.

0:54.3

That's coming up shortly.

0:56.2

If you haven't yet sent us a question for our special episode, please do, loads people

0:59.8

have, but just record yourself asking a question about the election or politics in general

1:03.6

record on your phone email it to us at redbox at the Times.co.

1:07.8

UK and we'll hopefully try and answer some of those next week.

1:11.0

But it's Friday, it's the end of the week of course I'm joined by

1:14.1

Esther Weber's reporter to take a look back over a sort of eventful if largely

1:19.3

inconsequential week in the election campaign.

1:22.1

We seem to have had a few of them.

1:24.0

So let's do it chronologically.

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