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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Major Upset? Will the next election be a 1992 or a 1997?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Labour’s shock General Election loss in 1992 still haunts the party – and nobody wants to tempt fate by mentioning 1997’s landslide victory either. Will the next Election be a ’92, a ’97 or something else entirely? Steve Richards of the Rock & Roll Politics podcast explains what lay behind Neil Kinnock’s defeat and the trauma it inflicted on Labour; how it created the control freakery of the New Labour era; and what it all means for Keir Starmer.  Listen to Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards on all platforms: https://kite.link/RNRP  Written and presented by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Kasia Tomasiewicz. Lead producer Jacob Jarvis. Bunker music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. Group Editor Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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We're at Bunker-under-core pod with previews, extra info, robust debate, and much more. Welcome to the bunker, I'm Andrew Harrison. So, are we in for another 1997 or another

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1992? This is the question that's haunting labour supporters and if you're old enough to have experienced the party's surprise defeat against John Major's supposedly dead and buried Tories in 1992, you'll know exactly why.

1:41.5

Some two years afterwards in the independent a trio of

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sephological gurus including John Curtis called 1992 one of the mysteries of

1:48.9

20th century politics. Here was a governing party they wrote which had been in power for 13 years, fighting a campaign

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at the end of the longest recession for more than 50 years. Unemployment was rising.

1:59.2

Interest rates were above 10%. House prices had collapsed, yet the parties were neck and neck through the campaign

2:04.6

and on the night the government claimed 42.8% of the vote. Labour got just 35.2.

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