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Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

The Inside Story of Election 19 One

Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

BBC

News, Politics

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

A bonus episode, with Anne McElvoy's behind-the-scenes documentary about the 2019 election

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.2

Welcome to Political Thinking.

0:07.2

I'm still away at the moment, so this is an edition of the podcast

0:10.8

with a difference another Radio 4 documentary

0:14.3

not made by me this time, but by Anne McKelvoy of the Economist

0:18.7

working with my podcast producer, Peter Snowden.

0:22.4

They're telling the inside story of election 19.

0:26.9

Now if you're in the mood for an interview,

0:28.9

remember that all the back editions of the podcast

0:31.8

can be found on BBC Sounds.

0:34.5

Here though, is that documentary first aired on Radio 4,

0:38.9

the inside story of election 19?

0:43.1

All the candidates were taking to one side and were shone the figures,

0:47.5

and I thought, you've lost the bean, you haven't getting it.

0:50.5

And then I looked into their teeth and I saw 17,440,

0:55.0

and I thought then, wow, I've done it, this is it.

0:59.8

Ian Levy, the Conservative Party candidate, 17,000.

1:07.8

Along with other Conservative candidates here in the North East,

1:11.2

Ian Levy had broken through Labour's formally impregnable red wall of seats.

1:19.2

And the thought of Blife Valley going Tory,

1:22.2

well unfortunately I have to talk to you, Hugh,

1:24.3

or my jaw would be on the floor, it's extraordinary.

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