Three by-elections and a Barbie movie
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Tomorrow voters in three English constituencies will head to the polls. Will the good news on inflation and car plants help Rishi Sunak? Will the backlash over child benefits harm Keir Starmer?
Or will none of it make any difference? Has the county already found an inflection point where it's looking for change? We hear from the pollster Lord Andrew Cooper.
And we talk to Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo about Barbie and her fall from paradise.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | It was the last PMQ's Prime Minister's questions of the summer today. |
| 0:16.8 | But the Zinger didn't come from the Prime Minister or from the Labour leader. |
| 0:21.7 | It came from Stephen Flynn, who is the leader of the SMP in Westminster, |
| 0:27.7 | and he tried to hit Labour where it hurts. |
| 0:31.2 | Stephen Flynn. |
| 0:32.7 | Mr Speaker, voters in Scotland are used to child poverty under the Tories. |
| 0:38.8 | They almost expect it. |
| 0:40.4 | But what they don't expect is child poverty support from the Labour Party. |
| 0:46.7 | And if we look very closely right now, there is a shiver running along the Labour front bench looking for a spite. |
| 0:54.3 | In some ways, this hasn't been a bad week so far for Rishi Sunak. |
| 0:57.7 | Good, relatively good news on inflation, on big international investment. |
| 1:02.2 | Stama having troubles within his own party about that two-child policy. |
| 1:07.5 | But we are in, by-election Eve. |
| 1:09.6 | There are three by-elections coming tomorrow, and Rishi |
| 1:12.5 | Sunak could be the first Prime Minister since Harold Wilson in 1968 to lose three by-elections |
| 1:19.6 | on a single day. Today we'll be taking you through them and asking what impact they're going |
| 1:24.8 | to have on our politics as we head to the summer. |
| 1:28.9 | Welcome to the news agents. |
| 1:33.1 | The news agents. |
| 1:34.1 | It's Emily. |
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