Capital punishment, pitiful polling and pogo sticks
Chopper's Politics
The Telegraph
4.2 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
New deputy chair of the Conservative Party, Nickie Aiken MP joins Christopher Hope in the Red Lion this week to vigorously defend her co-chair Lee Anderson, after he got into hot water this week for his views on hanging. The MP for Cities of London and Westminster blames the coverage of her colleague on snobbery from "intelligentsia", plus she decries polling in the Telegraph this week that puts the Tories down by a whopping 23%.
Former Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg has a different view on those sombre numbers, and urges government to take them seriously, saying that the wipe-out of Labour in Scotland proves that parties can go from holding all the cards to virtually no seats. And Electoral Calculus' Martin Baxter breaks down his exclusive large-scale poll that spells disaster for the Tories, saying that the next election could be "worse than 1997", with the Conservatives not even being the main opposition party.
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| 0:37.0 | You know, the thought that the Prime Minister could pogo stick down Whitehall and that would make everybody |
| 0:44.2 | think gosh he's very exciting. |
| 0:45.8 | Isn't how politics works? |
| 0:49.5 | Hello and welcome to Chopper's Politics Podcast with me, Christopher Hope, chopper to my friends, the |
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| 0:58.8 | Well it's the week that Ritchie Sunak reshuffled his ministerial top team in the bid to put an emphasis on growth, the environment and a high-tech future. |
| 1:08.0 | And he also promoted Redwall Tory MP Lee Anderson to be his deputy chairman. |
| 1:15.0 | But will any of this move the dial on Labour's enormous lead in the polls? |
| 1:19.0 | A mega poll of 28,000 people to the Telegraph suggested that the long way back for the Tory Party, |
| 1:25.2 | it found that Labour would be left with more than 500 MPs if a snap election were called |
| 1:30.7 | tomorrow. And almost immediately after that polling emerged, the new deputy chairman, Lee Anison |
| 1:37.2 | got into its own bit of trouble, after it was revealed he wants to bring back hanging. |
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