Midweek update: Labour enters choppy waters on racism and economics

Political Fix

Financial Times

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🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

An unprecedented intervention from the UK’s chief rabbi has knocked Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign off course. A disastrous BBC interview also raised questions about his party’s economic credibility. Can the leak from UK-US trade talks put Labour’s campaign back on track? Plus, we look at the Conservatives’ manifesto, which has already almost been forgotten. Presented by Sebastian Payne, with George Parker, Laura Hughes and Jim Pickard. Produced by Anna Dedhar.

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0:37.0	Welcome to the FTE election countdown, your regular update on the UK's general election from the Financial Times.
0:45.0	I'm Sebastian Payne.
0:46.7	As you have guessed, our politics podcast has now become the election countdown as we take
0:51.0	you through the highs and lows as we head in towards the
0:53.5	December the 12th poll. This is your little midweek update on what's been
0:57.2	happening on the campaign trail. It's been a rather difficult time for the
1:01.3	Labour Party as Jeremy Corbyn once again has been mired in a racism
1:06.2	controversy with a very big intervention from the UK's Chief Rabbi, plus a rather odd event
1:11.9	to launch the party's raced manifesto and further
1:15.0	controversy over some leaked documents about the UK's trade deal with the US
1:19.4	after we leave the EU. I'm delighted to be joined here in Parliament with George Parker, the
1:23.8	FT's political editor, Jim Picard, our chief political correspondent and Laura
1:27.8	Hughes political correspondent. Thank you all for joining. So Jim, let's begin by just
1:31.8	looking at the past couple of days for labor here that
1:34.8	they released their manifesto last week and began to see a little bit of pickup
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