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Politics Unpacked

Windrush, Polling and Wetherspoons

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley welcomes Times political editor Francis Elliot, Times reporter Grant Tucker and former No10 spin chief Katie Perrior.


The panel discuss: is Theresa May's stint as home secretary coming back to haunt her, is the problem with polls, the data or those who report it, and after Wetherspoons ditched social media, is it time for brands and politicians to switch off twitter and get back to the day job?



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0:00.0

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0:08.0

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0:16.5

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0:31.3

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0:35.2

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0:40.3

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0:43.8

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0:46.3

To find out more and book a demo, visit Politics Podcast in The Times. I'm Matt Chorley.

1:01.2

Joining me on the podcast this week, Katie Perrier, who used to work for Theresa May in number

1:05.0

ten on whether or not we should ban political polls. Grant Tucker asks if all politicians

1:10.4

should follow weather spoons and quit social media.

1:13.5

But first, Times political editor Francis Elliot,

1:16.7

on Theresa May's past coming back to Haunter.

1:20.9

Theresa May entered the record books is the longest serving home secretary, a role usually seen as where political careers go to die.

1:28.0

But after the rising knife crime and the row over the Windrush generation,

1:32.0

her six years in charge of law and order are starting to come back to haunt her.

1:36.0

So finally, it immediately, I was Windrush.

1:39.0

Just explain to somebody who maybe hasn't followed it for the beginning,

1:42.0

how what looks like an

1:43.8

absolutely massive row has emerged in about 24 hours. Right, so this is a row that

1:51.0

begins in 2012 when they start changing the rules on the entitlement

1:57.6

and the immigration status of a whole lot of people and bubbles up very slowly as the system is introduced and nobody quite sees that the Commonwealth heads of government meeting is going to be a moment

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