Local Elections: Tories take a battering but can Labour claim victory?
Chopper's Politics
The Telegraph
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🗓️ 5 May 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Sir Keir Starmer claims that Labour is on course to win a majority at the next general election, after the party made gains and the Tories suffered heavy losses at local elections across England.
But is claiming a Conservative crumbling to be a Labour win correct? Electoral Calculus's Martin Baxter and the Sunday Telegraph's Tony Diver join Christopher Hope at Telegraph Towers to discuss.
Plus former digital minister Matt Warman MP discuss the other hot topic of the moment - no, not the Coronation - but AI, after concerns were raised this week about whether developments in artificial intelligence could have an impact on jobs sooner than we think.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Chopper's Politics. |
| 0:04.0 | A lot to do and a short time to do it in, so it's going to be an exciting ride for the next 18 months, I think. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello and welcome to Chopper's Politics Podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | Now we're here a bit later than usual with up-to-date analysis of local elections in England, |
| 0:20.0 | we saw thousands of council seats up for grabs. |
| 0:22.0 | It's the first electoral test for the new |
| 0:24.4 | Prime Minister Ritchie Sunak and it's made for grim news for the Tory party, while |
| 0:29.5 | Labour and the Liberal Democrats and the Greens too are Cocker Hoop. |
| 0:33.7 | With me to discuss the fallout from these elections and what they mean for the next general election |
| 0:37.6 | are Martin Baxter, the founder of Electoral Teclists and Tony Diver, political editor of the Sunday Telegraph. |
| 0:45.0 | And because the results are still coming in, I should say that we are recording this just |
| 0:50.0 | before tea time on Friday, so some figures will be different in your |
| 0:54.8 | Saturday's daily telegraph. Martin Baxter from electoral calculus |
| 0:59.5 | welcome to choppers politics podcast great to have you on. Hi Chris. |
| 1:03.0 | Our new training diver here in Telegraph Towers. |
| 1:05.0 | Good to have you on Tony. |
| 1:07.0 | Martin backs the first who won? |
| 1:09.0 | Well, our short answer is Labour won. |
| 1:11.0 | So we are here recording this on Friday afternoon. We've got about a third of the results in, but it looks like Labour are on course to win hundreds of seats and the concerns are going to lose hundreds of seats on our figures. |
| 1:23.0 | Labour would imply a national vote chair lead for Labour over the Conservatives of about 15% |
| 1:29.0 | which would be enough for our values of central majority, yes. |
| 1:32.0 | So surely turning Diver, Kiez Armour should be relaxed today. |
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