The Intelligence: Labour’s union
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 7 March 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
A steady 20-point lead in the polls suggests that the Labour Party could comfortably win Britain’s next election. How have they managed to gain such a broad support base? Two embarrassing blunders from the German military could have sizeable implications at home and abroad (10:39). And, how two Japanese towns are transforming attitudes to childcare (16:44).
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| 1:03.0 | fresh perspective in the events shaping your world. |
| 1:07.0 | In a bad week for Germany's military, |
| 1:09.0 | a phone leak revealed politically sensitive discussions about arming Ukraine and a German |
| 1:15.2 | warship almost shot down an American drone, can Germany still be trusted by its allies. And Japan has a worryingly low birth rate. |
| 1:27.0 | People are not having enough children to replenish the population. |
| 1:31.0 | Our correspondent visits two exceptional towns that are making good efforts to change that. |
| 1:36.0 | Could they spread the baby fever? But first. At the last British election in 2019, Labour chalked up its fourth defeat in a row. |
| 1:59.0 | It was the party's worst result in almost a century. |
| 2:03.0 | And the Tories were eyeing up another decade in power on the back of a landslide victory. |
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