Prime Minister Corbyn: what then?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley examines what a Labour government would do. He speaks to Andrew Gwynne, the party's election co-ordinator, about what sort of PM Jeremy Corbyn would be. Alice Thomson and Rachel Sylvester unpick the policy programme on offer, and David Aaronovitch and Henry Zeffman examine the personnel who would be lurking in the corridors of power.

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0:00.0	The moment is nearly here in hundreds of constituencies across the United Kingdom.
0:04.8	The polls are about to close.
0:07.8	It's 10 o'clock and we can give you the result of the joint broadcaster's exit poll and it predicts what we're saying
0:14.1	is the labor is up a staggering exit poll that if true we may very well be looking
0:19.7	at Jeremy Corbyn as the next Prime Minister goes down as one of the most extraordinary
0:23.3	shocks in electoral history.
0:25.6	Indication for Jeremy Corbyn.
0:27.6	Jeremy Corbyn. Jeremy Corbyn.
0:28.3	Jeremy Corbyn.
0:30.3	Jeremy Corbyn is heading to Downing Street.
0:36.0	Happy Christmas election, Britain.
0:40.0	Let's listen to the Prime Minister. I will be proud to be a Labour Prime Minister, but I have to warn you it will be very different.
0:47.0	It will be a very different way of doing things.
0:50.0	Because I was not...
0:51.0	Because I was not born to Rome. None of us were born to rule. I don't pursue the kind of politics that
0:57.8	thinks it's all a game, a part of a game, a debating society game. It's time we started building a country fit for the next generation.
1:07.6	It couldn't happen, could it?
1:09.6	The polls have been wrong before. So what would a Jeremy Corbyn
1:17.2	Premiership look like? Welcome to the Red Box Politics
1:20.3	Podcast on The Times. I'm Matt Chorley. In this episode we will explore the policies
1:25.3	and the personalities that would make up a Labour government. Later Alice Thompson and
1:30.4	Rachel Sylvester on the ideas which Jeremy Corbyn would want to turn into reality.
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