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Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Matt Chorley is joined by The Times' Head of News Fay Schlesinger, Anthony Wells from YouGov and Chief Political Correspondent for The Times, Michael Savage.Fay Schlesinger:A drive to weed out and punish Universities that deliver poor-quality teaching is a step forward as higher education becomes bigger and more expensive. But let’s not allow the system to become homogenised. Everyone remembers their scatty professor who dispensed with notes to launch into an off-topic spiel that left the hungover students enthralled and inspired. The Government’s University reforms must improve standards and choice, and allow bad institutions to fail… but let that professor survive. Anthony Wells:Young people, who don't vote, back Remain, old people, who do vote,back Leave. So If turnout is low, Leave stands a better chance with only the dedicated older voters turning out. Or so the consensus goes.Except it's more complicated than that: the middle classes and well-educated are also more likely to vote. And they...

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0:00.0	May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get
0:08.0	10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again.
0:16.5	Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app.
0:20.1	Just imagine what your best Christmas ever would sound like.
0:23.5	Thank you for calling National Lottery and I can see you calling about a winner today, is that correct?
0:27.5	Yeah, I think I have. I should take a double check for the car wheel.
0:31.0	Yeah, I can confirm that you have won the top prize 1.2 million.
0:35.0	Oh my word! Happy Christmas! Why do you know?
0:39.0	You have the best Christmas ever.
0:41.0	I got a hair thing.
0:42.0	This Christmas, it could be you. The National Lottery. Rules and procedures apply. Players must be 18 or over.
0:50.0	Hello and welcome to the Red Box Podcast and The Times, I'm Matt Chorley.
0:57.0	Well, the cough is off.
0:58.6	As Natalie Bennett stands down as Green Party leader, Times Chief Political Correspondent
1:02.4	Michael Savage,
1:03.6	cast a critical eye over what she achieved,
1:06.7	and we'll have another listen to that brainfade interview.
1:10.5	Everyone in Westminster thinks they're an expert on the EU referendum, but Anthony Wales from
1:14.2	U-Gov is here to say we might be getting it all wrong on turnout.
1:18.2	The first time as head of news face Lessinger on how a drive to improve universities could
1:22.1	promote the mediocre at the expense of the eccentric.
1:25.0	A drive to weed out and punish universities that deliver poor quality teaching is a step forward
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