What do voters think of Sunak and Starmer? The focus group results are in!
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4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at what’s going on in voters’ minds. The Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show, along with the polling company More In Common have organised a series of focus groups to understand public opinion and what’s going on behind the opinion polls with a range of voters in the north west of England.
Laura and Paddy discuss what the focus groups think of Britain in 2024, Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer.
You can see Britain in a Room on Laura’s programme on BBC One at 9am on Sunday.
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| 0:04.7 | Hello. |
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| 0:06.7 | Making each other laugh. |
| 0:07.7 | We are, you just really, really made me laugh, but we are talking of serious businesses |
| 0:10.5 | this afternoon, so I will know, stop stop laughing that you did just really |
| 0:13.0 | really make me laugh but newscasters I'm not going to tell any of you what it |
| 0:15.7 | no that'd be really annoying if you don't do that all it is is that there is |
| 0:19.5 | there is a certain ludicrous nature to broadcasting you have to be fair about it. |
| 0:24.0 | What do you refer? |
| 0:25.0 | Well, I mean, some people are very much more theatrical than others. |
| 0:28.6 | Some people are very believable. |
| 0:30.1 | But as Joan Rivers said, if you can fake sincerity or made. |
| 0:33.2 | And one of the things that we do is we interview members of the public. |
| 0:36.9 | Quite rightly. |
| 0:37.9 | And it's given a posh name in the past, Vox Populous, the Latin name, the voice of the people. Now we've both been |
| 0:45.5 | King and Queen of Vox Bob's. Yes and I they can be extremely revealing and very |
| 0:51.9 | helpful and very useful and I do feel especially covering politics |
| 0:54.8 | it's really really important to be around the country and to listen very carefully to what people |
| 1:00.6 | are saying. |
| 1:02.3 | Sometimes also VoxPops can take on a legendary status of their own. |
| 1:07.6 | You're joking. Not another one? Oh for God say I can't honestly I can't stand this there's too much |
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