NS #91: The election post-mortem

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🗓️ 11 May 2015

⏱️ 20 minutes

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After the election: the post-mortem. We discuss the results, and look to the future - considering the Labour leadership candidates. (Helen Lewis, Stephen Bush, George Eaton)

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1:05.0	I'm deputy editor Helen Lewis and I'm going to be talking to George Eaton and Stephen Bush
1:09.3	about what went wrong for labor. The results were incredibly, both for people in the Tory and Labour camps and also for
1:15.6	Lib Dems too.
1:16.6	And there's plenty to chew over this week as we look to a Labour leadership election.
1:30.0	After the defeat, the post-mortem, after Labour comprehensively lost the 2015 election
1:35.2	and the Lib Dems collapsed too,
1:36.9	plus UKIP lost its leader.
1:39.3	What next?
1:40.1	I'm joined by a politics editor George Eaton
1:42.0	an editor of the stag of Stephen Bush to analyze all the fallout from Thursday night's results.
1:47.0	George, let's go back first to the scale of Labour's defeat, really, one which no one in the party was expecting.
1:55.1	In a perverse way does that make it easier to move on?
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