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Politics Unpacked

Are political promises worth it?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2015

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Tim Montgomerie is joined by Sam Coates, Daniel Finkelstein and Anne Ashworth.The panel discuss David Cameron's employment manifesto pledge, the response of the Muslim Council of Britain to the letter from Eric Pickles plus the astounding response to the National Savings & Investment Pensioner Bonds. Subscribe via iTunes: itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/did-you-read

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0:55.0

To find out more, head to the Times.co. UK.

1:00.0

Welcome to the latest edition of the Times Opinion Podcast. My name is Tim Montgomery and this week I'm joined by our deputy political editor Sam Coates making his debut columnist Danny Finkelstein and our assistant editor, Anne Ashworth.

1:17.2

This week David Cameron pledged full employment for the 2015 Tory Manifesto, but this sets the Tories no target date making the pledge effectively unbreakable

1:26.4

Ed Miliband meanwhile has promised to cut the deficit every year but when asked how he's going to do it

1:30.1

he merely says it'll be fairer in a fairer way than the Tories, meaning successes in the eye of the beholder.

1:35.2

It looks like the experience of the Lib Dems over tuition fees, coupled with the way that

1:38.6

parties seem to want to make more and more policies coalition proof, is turning manifesto pledges into something a bit

1:43.8

more mushy, bland and unbreakable. Does this matter? Is it a bad thing and should

1:48.0

we criticize them for it? The response of the Muslim Council of Britain to the

1:52.1

letter from Eric Pickles is deeply

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