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Politics Unpacked

Special: The Red Box Election Debate

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

As Britain prepares to go to the polls, Matt Chorley chairs a Red Box debate. On the panel: Katie Perrior, former director of communications at Number 10, Anthony Wells, director of YouGov's political polling and Times columnists Hugo Rifkind and David Aaronovitch.Up for discussion: are people still backing Theresa May, is Jeremy Corbyn a turn-off on the doorstep or surging, is the only way down for the Nicola Sturgeon's SNP, and did the Lib Dems and UKIP make it all about Brexit?

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0:00.0

Just imagine what your best Christmas ever would sound like.

0:03.4

Thank you for calling National Lottery. I can see you calling about a winner today, is that correct?

0:07.4

Yeah, I think I have. I'd just take to double check before I do a cartwheel.

0:11.1

Yeah, I can confirm that you have won the top prize 1.2 million oh my

0:15.5

what happy Christmas why do now you have the best Christmas ever this Christmas it could be you. The National Lottery. Rules and procedures apply. Players must be

0:28.3

18 or over. Hello, good evening. Welcome to this special Times Red Box panel debate just two days

0:42.1

before the general election. We had hoped to be joined by a live

0:45.9

audience here at the news building, but given the tragic events which happened right in our doorstep

0:49.8

on Saturday night, we decided that the security called is still in place it was too much

0:55.1

to expect lots of people to come into the building however we still wanted the debate

0:58.5

to happen so I'm delighted to be joined by Katie Perry a, former Director of Communications at Number 10 for

1:05.2

Theresa Mainz or the General Electra was called, Anthony Wells from the Pols to

1:08.0

UGov and Times columnist David Ewanovich and Hugo Rifkin. Do try and join in as we debate all of the issues which have

1:17.1

clayed out during the election campaign, but also what we expect to happen after Friday.

1:22.7

Let's start with the issue that we didn't want

1:25.9

to be talking about two days before general election

1:27.8

campaign, but the impact of the events

1:30.7

which happened just outside our building here

1:32.1

on Saturday night.

1:33.8

Katie what impact do you think the tow attack will end up having on the election

1:37.7

campaign if any?

1:38.7

A huge impact.

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