What really decides your vote?

Beyond Today

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🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

With six weeks to go until the general election we know we’re going to get speeches and policy announcements, but what really makes up our minds? In the past we voted along class lines, but that’s all changing. We speak to Rosie Campbell who is professor of politics at Kings College in London. She’s also Director of The Global Institute for Women’s Leadership and made two Radio 4 programmes on How Voters decide. Presenter: Matthew Price Producers: Philly Beaumont, Jessica Beck Mixed by Nicolas Raufast Editor: John Shields

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:06.6	Hello, I'm Matthew Price.
0:08.2	This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.7	Every day we ask one big question about one big story.
0:14.0	Today what...
0:17.0	Today what really decides your vote?
0:27.0	You're joking.
0:31.0	You're joking. Not another one?
0:34.0	There seems to be this sort of set way that we normally cover elections. And we know we're going to get six
0:47.1	weeks of party leader interviews. We're going to get policy announcements.
0:50.9	Is the most important election for Scotland in our lifetimes.
0:56.6	We must deliver Brexit.
0:59.2	Our politics properly represents the country that we are here to serve.
1:05.0	We don't solve them by simply putting Jeremy Corbyn or Boris Johnson into Downing Street.
1:10.0	There's also going to be this sort of idea of the mythical voter.
1:13.6	He's white, he's older, he's a non-graduate and he's from a town with a strong rubili tradition.
1:19.6	I'm talking about the Workington man.
1:22.1	Someone who lives in a constituency where their vote really counts.
1:25.9	A person who spends every day up to the election analyzing all the party's ideas
1:29.8	in the same detail that the political correspondence and the analysts do who then goes into the polling
1:34.2	station fully informed to vote.
1:36.7	Yeah it's mythical it's not really how we make our decisions about voting is it and then there's
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