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🗓️ 19 June 2024
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With the rocket hurtling towards the election, what do its inhabitants make of the latest manifesto madness?
In light of the latest inflation figures Liam thinks the Conservatives need to be more honest about tax hikes, whilst Allison thinks that Reform’s policies are what should have been in the Conservative Party Manifesto, and might help pull back some disillusioned voters.
Also joining your co-pilots for a return mission to the rocket is journalist and the Social Democratic Party candidate for Middlesbrough South, Rod Liddle, who gives the co-pilots an update on his campaign and the ‘soft’ deal his party has struck with Reform UK.
And is it coming home? Allison gives her take on the Euros…
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0:29.0 | Come. Many of the policies are what should have been in the Conservative |
0:36.4 | manifesto if the party had any remaining instincts for survival. |
0:42.1 | Four, it is true, I think, that reforms economic policies are touching a nerve just as its policies on immigration. |
0:52.0 | And when you then listen to Sakea Starma going down on onely and being pious and then leaping up and wrapping himself in the Union Jack, |
1:02.0 | it's hugely unappetizing. |
1:03.6 | Farrage started his presentation saying the first duty of the British government is to its own people. |
1:11.6 | I mean the idea that that even needs saying but clearly it does. |
1:17.0 | One. |
1:18.0 | We have left off. |
1:28.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph Podcast with Allison Pearson. Hello? |
1:29.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
1:31.0 | We're in the heart of this election campaign Allison with two weeks until the |
1:34.9 | country votes on Thursday July the 4th. Labor are heading for a big majority and |
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