Q&A: Should we believe Starmer's pledge card and compulsory voting
The Two Matts
The New World
4.2 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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In this Sunday Q&A episode the two Matts take on your questions on compulsory voting, online voting, Article 7 and more on the Elphicke defection.
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| 1:14.7 | The New European. Should we go straight in? |
| 1:16.2 | Yes. Should we believe Keir Starmer's pledge card asks Anna L from Manchester. Thanks, Anna. |
| 1:21.1 | Well, I think we can believe it that he means it. I would question kind of how much you can hold him to anything on it because it's |
| 1:28.3 | slightly amorphous and vague, isn't it? Well, it's very amorphous and vague. I mean, you're not even |
| 1:32.9 | allowed to call it a pledge card, I gather. Pledge is old-fashioned, isn't it? As Chris Mason said, |
| 1:37.3 | try saying, I pledge to take the bins out and you'll realize how hollow it is. But I think Labour have actually briefed that we shouldn't call it a pledge card. |
| 1:45.7 | I'm not sure what we should call it. |
| 1:47.1 | And to be honest with you, I don't really care. |
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