New era? The political vibe shift is here

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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It feels like something is changing in the country – but is a real shift occurring? A vibe shift, if you will... Poll fiend and senior data journalist at the New Statesman Ben Walker talks to Ros Taylor about whether the political mood of the UK has fundamentally changed, with Brexit, culture wars, climate change and COVID. “If the Labour Party used Take Back Control, it would do well as a slogan.” “Younger Brits are more inclined towards personal, not national, identities. But it's the same thing – belonging.” “Anxiety over the environment is just as high in the Red Wall as in the inner city, but the way you go around solving it is different.” “A lot of voters feel strained by the old rules. COVID showed things can change.” www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Ros Taylor. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Assistant producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Audio production by Alex Rees. Music: Kenny Dickinson. Group editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:24.7	Joining me is someone who has his finger on the pulse of public opinion.
1:28.4	Ben Walker, who's co-founder of the poll aggregator, Britain elects and senior data journalist at the new statesman.
1:34.3	Welcome to the bunker Ben. Yeah, thank you for having be in the bunker. Is it nuclear
1:38.7	safe? Well we hope so. We haven't actually tested that yet. Okay, we've seen some enormous poll leads for
1:45.6	labour in the last couple of weeks as the government has begun to fall apart.
1:51.3	How thick do you think that support is? If you look at all the polling right now,
1:56.3	you're looking at a labor vote share as high as perhaps 50 something percent, as low maybe as 45 percent.
2:03.4	And, you know, this is better than 1997 for them, really.
2:06.4	What they're on course for if an election was held today
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