Why has the Labour party turned nasty?
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The Guardian
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🗓️ 13 April 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:08.6 | Today, why is the Labour Party turn nasty? |
| 0:22.0 | Have Labour and Conservatives entered a new era of gutter politics? |
| 0:26.8 | Conservatives have dismissed as vile and gutter politics. |
| 0:30.3 | This has got to politics, isn't it? |
| 0:33.8 | The advert starts with a question |
| 0:36.8 | that to most people in this country would seem rhetorical. |
| 0:40.4 | Do you think adults convicted of sexually assaulting children |
| 0:44.0 | should go to prison? |
| 0:45.5 | The answer given below it is confounding. |
| 0:49.6 | Rishi Suneck doesn't. |
| 0:51.8 | This is a message that the Labour Party |
| 0:54.5 | has been spreading on social media |
| 0:57.3 | and that's been viewed tens of millions of times. |
| 1:00.9 | That the current Conservative Prime Minister is so soft on crime |
| 1:05.5 | that he wants Peter Files to get away unpunished. |
| 1:10.0 | When Kirsta Amal was elected as Labour leader, |
| 1:12.9 | he said he'd never engage in these sorts of personal attacks. |
| 1:17.3 | They're not opposition for opposition, |
| 1:18.9 | say I'm not going to score party political points. |
| 1:22.3 | And yet, three years later, |
| 1:24.8 | Stammer's launched an ad campaign |
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