What Election Year Is It?
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Which election in history could 2024 most closely resemble? Will it be a 1997-style landslide? Could the Tories pull off a surprise win like John Major in 1992? Or could it be such a tight result we have to go back to the polls, like in 1974?
Live at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, Matt is joined by polling guru Professor John Curtice, Times Radio's Ayesha Hazarika, Red Box Editor Lara Spirit, and Times Radio's senior political correspondent Patrick Maguire.
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| 1:07.0 | Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Shirley bringing the best of my times radio show |
| 1:10.9 | you can listen live to politics out the boring bits Monday to Friday, 10 till one, |
| 1:15.0 | on your DAB radio, on your smartspeaker or download the times radio app. Coming up on today's |
| 1:20.7 | episode, our tour of Britain continues. We went to Bournemouth for the Lib Dems, we went to |
| 1:24.0 | Manchester for the Tories, Liverpool for the Labour Party, and now we're at lovely Cheltenham, |
| 1:29.4 | the Tyrems and Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival, with a very special |
| 1:34.8 | live debate in front of an audience of several hundred people, but we're asking what year is it? |
| 1:41.5 | So here it is. |
| 1:42.4 | Welcome to the Tyrems Radio Debates, here with a live audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. |
| 1:55.6 | I'm Matt Shirley and because we're now probably only a year away from the next general election, |
| 2:00.0 | we brought together some of the biggest electoral brains in the country, just tried to find out |
| 2:04.2 | what we can learn from the politics of the past and find out which election in history |
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