Times Radio Focus Group - June 2021
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
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🗓️ 14 June 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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This month the Times Radio focus group is chaired by legendary US pollster Frank Luntz, who speaks to swing voters about lockdown, taking the knee, Joe Biden's age and how Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer are faring.
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| 1:01.6 | slash change. Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt |
| 1:06.6 | Surely, a cracking episode for you today. It's our monthly focus group where we tune up with |
| 1:12.8 | a Kex-CNC to bring you the real views of swing voters. No James Johnson this month, though, |
| 1:19.3 | because we've got legendary US pollster Frank Luntz in the chair. And if no matter how bad you |
| 1:26.6 | think British politics is, he was quite pleasantly surprised at how nice people are when they're |
| 1:30.8 | discussing politics in the UK, at least compared to America. So that's coming up in our big thing. |
| 1:35.5 | Later in the episode, but first, as ever, we kick off the economy's panel. No, we'll be |
| 1:38.2 | purposes. We're servicing a yacht or something. So we've got Rachel Vesta and Martha Gill. |
| 1:48.1 | Well, I suppose we need to talk about unlocking. Are we either of you planning to go to a nightclub |
| 1:53.2 | or get married, Rachel? No, definitely not. Well, I'm already married and I'm no |
| 1:58.1 | plans to go to any nightclub, but I would quite like to see some more friends. And also, I quite like |
| 2:03.9 | to visit family. We've got family in America. And I know that's a whole other section of |
| 2:08.9 | unlocking, but I would quite like that. What about you, Martha? Are you concerned about the idea |
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