Why do politicians make claims which can so easily be disproved?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Matt Chorley is joined by former advisor to Tony Blair turned stand up, Matt Forde, Times columnist Rachel Sylvester and former minister David Willetts, who now heads the Resolution Foundation. They debate if the weak Labour opposition is distorting everything Theresa May does? Why in the age of Google, some politicians make claims which can so easily be disproved? And how the goal of each generation doing considerably better than the one before it can be revived.

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1:03.6	I'm glad you enjoyed it but no we can't do the more often because then they wouldn't
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1:08.4	This week's podcast is dedicated to Diz-Daz Daws who wrote on iTunes insightful funny fantastic guests I can't get enough
1:15.7	of this podcast well this week's guests are nothing short of fantastic Matt Ford is
1:20.0	a former new labor spin doctor turn comedian who wonders why politicians say things
1:24.0	which can be quickly proven to be untrue. David Willett's former Tory minister and now chairman
1:28.6	of the Resolution Foundation warns young people are losing the intergenerational war, but first times columnist Rachel
1:34.7	Zalester twice nominated for the British Press Awards on the real threat to Theresa May.
1:41.9	Politics is an ecosystem in which the political parties are both in competition with each other and mutually interdependent.
1:47.0	The implosion of the Labour Party is destroying this delicate equilibrium.
1:51.0	The Prime Minister is now more scared of the tour of
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