The morning after
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
As the full scale of the election result became clear, Red Box assembled a stellar line-up of Times and Sunday Times reporters and columnists to explain what happened and why, and what happens next.
Henry Zeffman talks through the key seats and swings.
Columnists Camilla Long, Daniel Finkelstein, Alice Thomson and Matthew Parris discuss what kind of prime minister Boris Johnson will be now.
Red Box reporter Esther Webber, Times deputy editor Emma Tucker, columnist David Aaronvitch and Henry Zeffman on an existentialist crisis in the Labour Party.
And Tim Shipman, political editors of The Sunday Times, on Boris Johnson plans and the role of Dominic Cummings.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:11.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains now on Uber. |
| 0:18.0 | T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. |
| 0:22.0 | Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast on The Times. |
| 0:24.7 | I'm Matt Shorty. There's a special live event recorded the morning after the general election |
| 0:29.2 | here at the news building in London Bridge. |
| 0:32.4 | I want to thank the people of this country for turning out to vote in a December election. |
| 0:39.0 | I want to also make it clear that I will not lead the party in any future general election campaign. |
| 0:45.4 | I mean I think we see today the divergent paths at Scotland and the rest of the UK are on. |
| 0:50.3 | I still believe that we as a country can be warm and generous. |
| 0:57.0 | I am humble that you have put your trust in me. So let's kick off them by looking at the results. |
| 1:08.6 | So let's kick off then by looking at the results. |
| 1:10.8 | Please welcome the stage Henry Zeffman, political correspondent from the Times and what |
| 1:14.5 | we're going to do, welcome to the stage in total silence, what we're going to do, what we're going to do |
| 1:20.9 | is take a look talking through the results and some of the interesting early patterns |
| 1:26.8 | That we think we're seeing so this is the results as it stands so far |
| 1:30.4 | 649 of 650 seats declared. |
| 1:33.0 | St Ives is the only one which hasn't declared. |
| 1:35.8 | They need to get the ballot boxes from the Isles of Silly. |
| 1:39.5 | There's been a storm and there's talk. |
| 1:41.3 | We might not get the result till Monday and it's interesting |
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