How Liz Truss Lost her Seat | General Election Special | 1

British Scandal

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Scandal, Alice Levine, Great Britain, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, British, England, History, Matt Forde, Documentary

4.5 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

What does the UK General Election mean for British Scandal? A bonus episode of course. We already have a whole series covering Liz Truss losing her Premiership. Now she has lost her seat altogether. The first former PM to do so since 1935! Matt and Alice speak to the man some would say is behind her recent loss, James Bagge. Last week, he stood against her as an independent candidate winning 6000 votes. Oh, and his brother, Sir Jeremy Bagge, featured in our Liz Truss series. James Bagge paints a picture of the negative reaction Liz Truss received on the doorsteps of Norfolk, and weighs in on Matt’s questionable impression of Sir Jeremy.

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0:00.0	From Wundery, I'm Matt Ford, and I'm Alice Levine.
0:09.0	And this is British scandal. So we're doing something a little bit special in this episode. Alice, do you remember the
0:26.6	2024 general election?
0:28.6	Give me a sec. I usually have to use my diary for this just to jog my memory. I put some little notes in there yes of course I do I actually went
0:34.8	down to the BBC building in central London and they projected the exit pole on the
0:40.3	building it was so exciting loads of people were gathered. There was a
0:44.1	countdown. It was like it was like New Year to the power of maybe eight.
0:48.9	That is so cool. Had you planned to do that? Well I got wind from my, you know, I've got political contacts.
0:56.4	I know political cells that keep me abreast of these things.
1:00.0	And they said it was happening, and I was actually working so I ran it felt really dramatic
1:05.0	I ran from up the road turned the corner and there was a countdown for 50 seconds for the
1:10.0	exit poll to be there it was really great I imagine for you though Matt this is all
1:15.8	your birthdays and all your Christmases rolled into one it's like birthday's Christmas
1:20.4	the World Cup and a massive ham sandwich all rolled into one.
1:27.4	So many of the results obviously stand out.
1:30.0	Top of the list has to be Liz Trost losing her seat and always whenever I'm watching the news
1:36.4	I see the world through the eyes of this show what does it mean for British scandal
1:42.3	so we had to do a special bonus episode
1:45.5	about what was the Portillo moment of this election.
1:49.2	Okay, explain the Portillo moment to us.
1:51.3	So in New Labor's 1997 landslide victory, Michael Portillo, who at that point was
1:57.6	one of the biggest stars of the Tory party and was odds on to become the next leader,
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