288: David Frost: The making of a Conservative wipeout

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🗓️ 6 July 2024

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David Frost – Conservative peer and former chief Brexit negotiator and – returns for this post-election edition of The Brendan O’Neill Show. David and Brendan discuss how the Conservative Party got it so wrong, what Nigel Farage got right, and how the Tories can rebuild from opposition.

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0:00.0	The truth is we got 14 million votes in 2019 and last night we got under 7 million we've lost half her votes and that
0:17.3	back there's no other way of looking at it but you will still here I've heard people
0:21.6	today saying reform caused this defeat.
0:25.0	That is true in a technical sense.
0:27.6	It's not true in a political sense because we failed to offer to voters what reform is offering and that is the basic
0:37.8	political mistake we've made.
0:41.8	Hello welcome back to the Brendan O'Neill show with me Brendan O'Neill and my special
0:47.3	guest this week, Lord Frost.
0:49.1	David, welcome to the show.
0:50.1	Great to be here.
0:51.1	It's good to have you on on this strange historic day. So I'm speaking
0:56.6	to you the day after the UK election and it's very, very interesting.
1:02.8	So, Labor has got 412 seats, which is a landslide,
1:07.2	as some people are referring to it.
1:08.7	We can talk about how much of a landslide it is, I think.
1:12.0	And the Conservatives are down to 121 seats which is I think
1:16.3	everyone can agree really really really bad and it seems to me one interesting
1:21.4	thing about today it seems to one is that no one is really happy, apart from Nigel Farage perhaps,
1:28.2	but the Tories aren't happy, of course, your party is not happy because they've just been had a real
1:33.7	dropping. Labor doesn't seem particularly happy despite its landslide
1:38.5	because everyone is picking holes in the landslide and asking you know are they there on the back of people's
1:44.1	enthusiasm or are they there more because the Tories collapse so there's that
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