U.K. Conservatives fear losing power for a generation as polls predict Labour landslide
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🗓️ 3 July 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Britain goes to the polls tomorrow for an election in which the center left |
| 0:05.3 | opposition Labour Party led by Sir Keir Starmer is expected to claim |
| 0:09.8 | victory. The Conservatives who've governed since 2010 fear a landslide victory for labor could force them out of power for a generation. |
| 0:18.0 | Special Correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports from Britain's south coast. |
| 0:24.8 | For decades, West Worthing has been a true blue conservative fortress, but if the changing |
| 0:29.9 | political tide turns this district red, it'll signal that the Labour Party is |
| 0:35.3 | riding to a landslide victory across the country on a wave of quiet desperation. |
| 0:40.8 | Something has to be done because it's close to breaking point, I think, for the majority of people |
| 0:46.6 | in this country. |
| 0:47.8 | Like millions of voters, this former soldier and paramedic feels poorer after 14 years under the Conservatives. |
| 0:55.0 | Steve, who declined to give his surname, |
| 0:57.5 | trusts Labour's promises to raise living standards. |
| 1:00.8 | What sort of life is it when you feel that you're literally surviving? |
| 1:05.0 | You're not living a life. |
| 1:07.0 | You're surviving from one month to the next. |
| 1:10.0 | And people are fed up with it. They want some change. |
| 1:12.0 | Labor's candidate here is Becky Cooper, a public health doctor who's passionate about one of the |
| 1:18.4 | party's main pledges to heal the ailing national health service. |
| 1:23.0 | At the moment in hospitals we are seeing, you know, 18 month waiting times for things that actually |
| 1:28.0 | start to kill people, which is terrible. |
| 1:30.0 | So I liken it to getting a patient off life support. |
| 1:32.8 | That's what we need to do first of all. |
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