The Green vote: every colour of the rainbow?
The Story
The Times
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🗓️ 18 June 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Who’s voting Green in this election? There’s the fruit bowl analogy - mangos, melons and figs (we’ll explain) - and, more unkindly, the carpark. With sky-high levels of disenchantment driving support, could this be their breakthrough moment?
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| 1:30.0 | From The Times and the Sunday Times, I'm Luke Jones. |
| 1:33.0 | This is the story. |
| 1:37.4 | This election, there are a record number of candidates running. |
| 1:40.6 | The choice couldn't be wider. and yet so many voters feel homeless. |
| 1:46.0 | The Greens are hoping to scoop up a fair few of them on the 4th of July. |
| 1:50.2 | Are they a voter dustbin, As Lord Mandelson told the Times, |
| 1:54.2 | or a shiny recycling box for all those disaffected Tories, |
| 1:58.5 | Corbinites missing Corbin, swimmers sick of wading through po poo and voters wanting greater trans rights or |
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