General Election Special
Sophy Ridge On Sunday
Sky News
4.2 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2017
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Culture Secretary Karen Bradley defends Theresa May, while former Conservative ministers Anna Soubry and Lord Heseltine say the Prime Minister will have to go. Labour's Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry revels in her party's success, while Yvette Cooper explains how the Labour Party is uniting. #Ridge
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| 0:00.0 | Here comes Steve, with the satisfied smile of a man who's checking out at midday |
| 0:05.8 | after a great night's sleep and a delicious unlimited brecky. |
| 0:10.1 | See the untamable bedhead here. |
| 0:12.6 | And if you look really close, you can see that properly well-rested glow, |
| 0:17.4 | which can only mean one thing. |
| 0:19.1 | Last night he slept at Premier Inn. |
| 0:22.2 | Get better sleep for your money. |
| 0:24.3 | Premier Inn. |
| 0:25.3 | Rest easy. |
| 0:26.9 | Breakfast subject to availability. |
| 0:28.7 | Teas and Cs apply. |
| 0:30.5 | Hello and welcome to the Sophie Ridge on Sunday podcast. |
| 0:33.8 | Well, who honestly saw that coming? |
| 0:36.3 | Thursday night's election results gave us a hung parliament, |
| 0:39.2 | something no one was predicting just a few weeks ago. |
| 0:41.7 | The Conservatives lost seats and Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party made gains. |
| 0:46.1 | A huge line-up of guests joined me to dissect the results |
| 0:48.5 | and to discuss what happens now. Well, when Theresa May call the election in April, pretty much everyone was expecting her to win a big majority. |
| 1:04.6 | And some people even suggested her 12 seat cushion could be increased to over 100. But as the results rolled in on Thursday night, |
| 1:11.9 | it was clear her plan had backfired spectacularly. The Conservatives lost seats falling to |
| 1:18.1 | 318 and Labour under Jeremy Corbyn made gains moving up to 266. The era of two-party politics |
| 1:26.3 | returned with a vengeance as the two big parties won over 80% of votes between them and the Conservative campaign so focused on the Prime Minister herself was a dismal failure and those responsible paid the price. |
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