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Politics Unpacked

The Museum of Brexit

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this bumper episode, Matt Chorley welcomes founder of Number Cruncher Politics, Matt Singh, senior political correspondent Lucy Fisher and columnist Iain Martin.


The panel cover: why nothing has changed in the polls, why a new party won't work in Britain and what should fill the new Museum of Brexit?




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0:18.0

Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast from The Times. I'm Matt Jolly back from the

0:28.8

Easter recess break. This week we're talking polling, the possibility of a new political party and my favorite story for some time the Museum of Brexit.

0:38.0

This week I'm joined in the studio by Times Senior Political Correspondent Lucy Fisher who wonders what we might put in the Museum of Brexit.

0:45.2

Times Economist Ian Martin asks if a centrist party, another one is being launched, but will they ever get off the ground?

0:51.6

But first, polling analyst and founder of Number Crunch of

0:54.6

politics, Matt Singh, are what exactly is going on in the polls.

0:57.6

All of the polls in the last month put the Conservatives in the lead. A governing party

1:02.4

even narrowly ahead at this point is doing pretty well on any historical comparison.

1:06.4

But with the 2017 campaign so fresh in the memory and much uncertainty on the horizon,

1:11.0

most are wary of thinking in those terms.

1:13.0

Currently we have two main parties

1:15.0

contesting the mantle of least unpopular

1:17.0

with the Lib Dems pretty much

1:18.0

where they've been for the last eight years.

1:20.0

At some point the stalemate will be broken

1:22.0

but it remains unclear just what that will take

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