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🗓️ 29 January 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Who is really ahead in the polls? Is support building for a second referendum? Would Leave or Remain win? And is Labour really trailing the Tories? Matt Chorley is joined by polling guru Sir John Curtice and Deborah Mattinson, Gordon Brown's former pollster and founder of Britain Thinks.
PLUS: Do you feel politically homeless? Jane Merrick describes quitting Labour and Nick Mazzei explains why he quit the Tories.
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0:46.9 | about last week's episode when we dare to talk about things other than Brexit |
0:50.1 | including poverty, war and Chris Grayling. This week I want to pose two questions. Can we trust the |
0:56.1 | polls and do you feel politically homeless? Not directly linked to Brexit but not unconnected either. In part two we'll speak to two people |
1:04.5 | one Labour one Conservative who quit their parties now don't know who to vote for. |
1:07.7 | But first what are the polls telling us? Is support growing for a second referendum? |
1:11.9 | Are the Tories ahead of labour or not? |
1:13.8 | And why have I never been polled? |
1:15.5 | Joining me in the studio is Deborah Matheson, an advisor to new labour who became |
1:18.6 | Gordon Brown's chief pollster before setting up her own research firm Britain Thinks. |
1:22.6 | And on the line from Edinburgh, |
1:23.7 | Sir John Curtis, Professor of Politics, |
1:25.4 | the University of Strathclyde, |
1:26.4 | and Senior Research Fellow at Nat Sen, Social Research, |
1:29.9 | and basically that polling guru off the teller |
1:31.6 | who always seems to get the exit poll right on |
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