Snap Election Special from Parliament

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2017

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

As Theresa May stuns Westminster by calling a snap election Lucy Fisher sits in for Matt Chorley and is joined by Sam Coates and Henry Zeffman to discuss the repercussions.The panel consider May's hit to her trustworthy image, her motivations for calling the election now and how large her majority must be for this to be considered a success? Whether a heavy election loss for Labour would really signal the end for Jeremy Corbyn, and why the Lib Dems will be delighted to fight a 'Brexit Election'

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0:28.3	18 or over. Hello and welcome to Red Box, the Politics Podcast from The Times and our Snap
0:40.1	General Election Announce special. I'm Lucy Fisher, senior political correspondent,
0:45.0	and joining me today are Sam Coates, deputy political editor,
0:48.0	and Henry Zefman political correspondent.
0:50.0	Before we begin on this rather extraordinary day,
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1:00.3	now to sign up at the Times dot co-dot UK
1:03.0	forward slash red box.
1:08.7	So this morning Theresa May announced a snap election
1:11.6	is going to take place on June the 8th. Jeremy
1:14.1	Corbyn has thrown his backing behind this move so it looks like it's on.
1:18.0	Sam you were there in Downing Street this morning when this announcement took place
1:22.2	what's your take? Well we have been
1:24.8	told time and time and time again ever since Theresa May entered Downing Street
1:30.3	back last summer that this day would never come. Even though there was an
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