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Economist Podcasts - The Economist asks: How did Boris turn Britain blue?

The Economist asks: How did Boris turn Britain blue?

Economist Podcasts

12/13/19 • 22 min

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has redrawn the political map in Britain after the Conservative party won the general election by a landslide. Outside the Houses of Parliament, Anne McElvoy asks Richard Burgon, a prominent pro-Corbyn frontbencher, whether Brexit or the Labour leader caused the party's crushing defeat. Did pollsters predict the blue rinse? And, Lord Falconer and Sir Michael Fallon, former cabinet ministers on either side of the political divide, debate how the Tories broke Labour’s “red wall” in the north-east, and where this leaves the Brexit process


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12/13/19 • 22 min

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