Losing Is Becoming A Habit
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
After a difficult set of election results for the Conservatives, including a by-election defeat in Blackpool South, Matt looks at what they mean for the parties and for Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer as elections expert John Curtice says that losing is the government's "habit".
Plus: Columnists India Knight and James Marriott discuss why neither of them voted, whether they sympathise with Boris Johnson who forgot his ID at the polling booth, and what it means for politics that young people are becoming more religious.
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