October 2021 Focus Group
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Matt Chorley is joined by former No10 pollster James Johnson for the monthly Times Radio Focus Group in association with Kekst CNC, asking a panel of swing voters in Wolverhampton, Rother Valley and Swindon what they noticed about the conference season, the rising cost of living, and their thoughts on Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer.
Plus Daniel Finkelstein and David Aaronovitch on anonymity online and how the rich call politicians.
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| 1:07.3 | Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Shirley. Now, lots around this week about going green, |
| 1:13.3 | the government unveiling its net zero strategy and telling us we're all going to have heat pumps |
| 1:18.3 | and so on. Well, next week, we're going to be joined by Allegra Stratton, the Prime Minister's |
| 1:24.8 | spokeswoman for COP26, those climate change tools. And she wants to answer your questions. |
| 1:30.6 | Are any questions you've got about what COP is? What does a success look like? Which countries |
| 1:36.2 | are the most difficult to get on board? What's it all going to mean for our lives? Whatever |
| 1:40.1 | questions you've got about climate change and the COP26 tools, email me now, mat.jollyat.times.radio |
| 1:47.8 | with your questions. And we'll put them to Allegra Stratton next week. Anybody hear that on the |
| 1:52.8 | podcast too? Right, coming up on today's podcast, we've reconvened the Times Radio focus group James |
| 1:58.4 | Johnson is in the chair asking, did swing voters even notice the party conferences? And what do they |
| 2:05.1 | make of it all? What do they make of Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer? It's not great for Boris Johnson, |
| 2:11.1 | it's brutal for Keir Starmer to stay tuned for that. First, as ever, it's our columnist panel, |
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