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Politics Unpacked

Year of Keir - Focus Group

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In the final instalment of Prime Ministers Week, Matt Chorley looks to the future, and convenes the Times Radio focus group to find out swing voters in Red Wall seats think of Keir Starmer's chances of becoming PM. 


PLUS:


Times columnists India Knight and James Marriott discuss the day's news, and the war on human nature.



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0:00.0

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be capable of powering over 6 million homes a year with clean renewable energy, a major step

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towards the UK achieving net zero carbon emissions. And all this is creating thousands of sustainable

0:52.8

green jobs in communities right across the UK. Find out more about what SSE are doing at SSE.com

1:01.6

slash change.

1:09.2

Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Chollie, rounding off Prime Minister's week,

1:14.2

all this week, where you've been marking the fact that it's 300 years on Saturday since

1:19.3

Robert Warpole became Britain's first Prime Minister. We've already looked at what it takes to

1:23.1

BPM, how you win at PMQ's and spoke to Jonathan Lynn, the co-creator of Yes Prime Minister,

1:28.8

you've got to obviously listen back to all those. But today, we're looking into the future and the

1:33.2

man who'd like to be the 56th person to move into number 10. Keir Starmer, we've convened our latest

1:39.2

touch on you, a focus group with James Johnson and Kex CNC. As we ask a panel of swing voters in

1:46.2

Red Wall seeds, do they think Keir Starmer's up to the job of being PM? That's coming up later

1:52.0

in the episode. But first, our columnist panel, it's Thursday, so it must be night at the Marriott,

1:56.4

it's India night and James Marriott.

2:04.6

First of all, we've got to tackle just the small topics today. The very nature of humanity,

2:11.9

James, both of you sort of written on similar themes and what it means to be a human and what

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