Voters cast their opinions on the state of politics
Political Fix
Financial Times
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The Conservative party lost hundreds of councillors across the county in this year's local elections, with the Labour party making significant gains in the capital. We analyse the results in London, the red wall, blue wall and beyond, plus what they mean for Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer.
Presented by Sebastian Payne, with George Parker, Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe, Jennifer Williams, Jim Pickard and Robert Shrimsley.
Produced by Howie Shannon. The sound engineers were Breen Turner and Jan Sigsworth.
Note: this edition was recorded at 12.00 BST on Friday 6th May.
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| 0:23.4 | The Labour Party scored some big London victories |
| 0:26.0 | in this year's local elections, |
| 0:28.0 | but only made modest gains elsewhere in England. |
| 0:31.4 | This is a massive turning point for the Labour Party. |
| 0:33.8 | From the depths of 2019, |
| 0:35.6 | we're back on track now for the general election, |
| 0:38.3 | showing what the change that we've done, |
| 0:40.2 | the hard change we've done in the last two years, |
| 0:42.0 | what a difference it has made. |
| 0:46.0 | Welcome to Payne's Politics. |
| 0:47.7 | You're an inside-it-guide British politics |
| 0:49.8 | from the Financial Times, with me Sebastian Payne. |
| 0:53.0 | In this week's episode, |
| 0:54.3 | we'll be dissecting the local election results |
| 0:56.7 | and how bad and good they were for the Tories, |
| 0:59.6 | Liberal Democrats and Labour, |
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