What the polls teach us about modern Britain
The Story
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🗓️ 5 June 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Is Labour as safe as it seems? Why do some of our votes matter ‘more’ than others? And what do polls tell us about who we really are? We take a deep dive into it all from the man behind the concept of the ‘red wall' - including why Mondeo Man and Worcester Woman aren't all they're cracked up to be.
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Guest: Pollster James Kanagasooriam, chief research officer, Focaldata.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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| 1:31.0 | From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Manveen Rana. |
| 1:37.0 | Back in 2019, when Britain last went to the polls, one man called it. He coined a phrase that |
| 1:50.0 | predicted what became the story of the election. |
| 1:54.0 | It's a phrase that I didn't really expect to take on the life that it has done. |
| 2:00.0 | He's the pollster who came up with the idea of the red wall. |
| 2:07.0 | What it was was an analysis to give a sense of whether there were a bunch of seats that might in a particular election shift en masse |
| 2:15.8 | from the Labour Party to the Conservative Party. |
| 2:19.6 | And he was right. |
| 2:21.2 | The red wall crumbled. A wave of seats turned from Labour to Conservative, handing |
| 2:28.0 | Boris Johnson the biggest majority since Margaret Thatcher's victory in 1987. |
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