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Political Fix

Week 2 of the 2017 general election and the revival of the Scottish Tories

Political Fix

Financial Times

News, Politics, News & Politics

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The pros and cons of tactical voting, Ukip's campaign launch, Labour's decline in the Wales and taxing issues for the Tories. With Henry Mance and Miranda Green of the Financial Times, plus commentator David Torrance and pollster Matt Singh. Presented by Sebastian Payne.

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0:41.5

I'm Sebastian Payne and in this week's episode we're

0:44.2

discussing week two of the 2017 general election campaign and the

0:48.3

surprising revival of Conservative Scotland. I'm glad to be joined by Henry Mann's the F.T.

0:53.7

political correspondent, political commentators David Torrance and Miranda Green

0:57.7

was our poster Matt Singh.

0:59.3

Thank you all for joining.

1:00.9

So the British General Election campaign entered its exciting second week and well not much has happened

1:06.8

the Conservatives continue to promise strong and stable leadership warned against a coalition of chaos

1:11.6

Labour talked about building a million new houses,

1:14.7

UKIP launched its campaign and the tour has gone to a route over tax Henry,

1:19.4

Manstent to begin by giving us your highlight of this campaigning week.

1:24.0

I think it was perhaps the UKIP leader Paul Nuttle really struggling to work out whether

1:29.4

he even wanted to be a candidate in this general election.

1:32.3

UKIP has all sorts of problems from organization to money to messaging,

1:36.8

but not even coming out and saying which seat you're going to stand for

1:39.6

is probably not the way to kick off a campaign.

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