February Focus Group
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Former No10 pollster James Johnson chairs a group of swing voters to get their views on Boris Johnson, Keir Starmer and the economy.
Plus: Libby Purves and Rachel Sylvester on who is in tune with the national mood on tax.
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| 1:23.0 | It wouldn't be a lovely thing for you to go on iTunes and post a review. Some people don't seem |
| 1:29.9 | to like the podcast for reasons which it is what it is and has been for some time now. It's times |
| 1:35.8 | people talking about the news and then occasionally some other interesting things too. The interesting |
| 1:40.0 | thing coming up today on the podcast is it's our latest focus group. We've been doing this every |
| 1:45.8 | month now since all back in June where we convene a pop of focus groups selected by market researchers |
| 1:52.2 | chaired by James Johnson who used to do focus groups in number 10. And it's again it's a really |
| 1:57.8 | fascinating list. And what do voters swing voters think about the government having the pandemic |
| 2:03.8 | about boys. Johnson, Vichy, Sunat, but also the opposition, Keir Starmer. And is anyone heard of |
| 2:09.0 | Anna Lee's adonce, the shadow chancellor, that's coming up later in the episode. But first we always |
| 2:13.7 | kick off with our times columnists panel and it's Mondays, but must be Liverpool, that's Libby |
| 2:19.2 | Purvis and Rachel Silvestre. So let's talk about the Labour Party. Or at least about tax policy. |
| 2:26.6 | Obviously it's really struck over the weekend. We'll touch on this with the focus group later on |
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