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Politics Unpacked

Snog, Marry, Avoid

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

It's a special conference edition of the Times Radio Focus Group; Matt and James Johnson from JL Partners hear from a group of 2019 Conservative voters who say they no longer support the party. What can Rishi Sunak do to win them back, and would they rather snog, marry or avoid Sunak, Starmer and Davey?


Plus: Columnists Iain Martin and Rachel Sylvester discuss Liz Truss's appearance at the Tory conference, whether school pupils should be banned from using mobile phones, and has multiculturalism failed in Britain?



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0:00.0

Hello, this is the Red Box Podcast. I'm Matt, surely bringing you the best of my times

0:08.6

ready show. You can listen live Monday to Friday, 10 to 1 on your DAB radio, on your Smart

0:13.0

Speaker, or download the times radio app. Today, coming to you from Manchester for the

0:18.7

Concerted Party Conference. I've just stepped outside. It's on between the conference centre

0:23.2

and the Midland Hotel. It's just started drizzling, obviously, because we're in Manchester.

0:28.8

We're going up on today's episode of the podcast. We've got the latest times of radio

0:33.0

focus group. Well, obviously, I want Labour to come in power. I've decided that while

0:36.6

I got out of void, Conservative, because it let me down. I bid it Conservatives for as long

0:41.9

as I can remember. James Johnson, former number 10 pollster in the

0:45.0

chair, asking people who voted Conservative in 2019. Now, say they're going to vote Labour.

0:50.2

Is there anything wishy-soon I can do to get them back? Now it's coming up in just

0:54.3

a moment. But first, it's time to talk to these two.

0:59.8

The columnists on Times Radio.

1:03.8

And we're joined live here on the Times Radio. Stand by Rachel Festos, everyone on Monday.

1:08.8

Hello, Rachel. Hi, man. And Ian Martin. Good morning, Ian.

1:11.8

Good morning. Are you having a nice time?

1:14.8

Yeah, it's all right. Actually, there's party conferences go. It seems a bit quiet.

1:18.8

Quite a lot. There aren't many people here. Yeah, though, we've both got stuck in the

1:22.8

queue to get in this morning. So it's clearly busier today.

1:25.8

Because there wasn't a separate media and friends, because there were so few people.

1:28.8

Right.

1:31.8

That's good investigative journey, my field. I saw Michael Gove and his running gear

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