Should we ban polls?

Coffee House Shots

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🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Some countries, like Canada and France, have bans on polling close to the election. Many figures on both sides of the campaign have been frustrated at how the media is consuming polling. What is a polling blackout, and why do some people want one? Megan McElroy speaks to Katy Balls and Chris Hopkins, polling expert and political research director at Savanta.

Elsewhere, David Tennant has taken aim at Kemi Badenoch. She has, to little surprise, responded. With one week to go, does the electorate have any appetite for a culture war?

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0:00.0	You can get three months of the spectator if you subscribe before the election for just three pounds plus a free election mug just go to spectator. Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.
0:16.5	My name's Megan McElroy and I'm joined by Katie Bulls and Chris Hopkins political
0:20.5	research director at Savannah.
0:23.0	Before we get started with this podcast, I want to tell you about an event we're having.
0:27.0	We're hosting coffee house shots live on the 11th of July.
0:31.0	How great is it going to be K too?
0:32.0	I've heard it's going to be pretty great.
0:34.0	That's what sources close to me are saying.
0:35.0	He listened to this podcast.
0:36.0	You might have heard us mentioned before, but tickets are now nearly over.
0:40.0	So this is one of...
0:41.0	I won't say final.
0:42.0	I don't want to make promises I can't keep, but one of our final
0:45.2	warnings.
0:46.2	And it will be 630 till 8 p.m. election after Murphy.
0:49.3	We're going to reveal a special guest in due course.
0:52.2	And to book a ticket just go to
0:53.5	W. W. dot Spectator dot co-dot UK forward slash live. So there's one week to go
1:00.0	until the general election and we thought today we might talk a bit about polling.
1:04.0	Katie you wrote this week about a polling blackout. Can you explain to the
1:08.1	listeners what that is and why we're talking about it? I think we've spoken a lot
1:12.2	about the polls on this podcast and in general I think if you think
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