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The Full English with Alexander Brown Episode 81 - Everyone's a Winner Baby!

Transcript

00:00 [Music]

00:20 Hello and welcome to Full English, a show that combines politics with three actual by-elections.

00:26 Labour won! The Lib Dems won! The Tories also won!

00:31 It was just a great night for claiming the results back to your argument. Let's get into it.

00:36 The Tories went into these by-elections expecting to lose all three, but in reality have on to Uxbridge and South Royceliffe,

00:43 with some of the Froum going Liberal Democrat, while Selby went to Labour.

00:46 Conservatives are always guessing this means next election is winnable and they can do it,

00:50 but when you look at the figures, I'm not sure many Tories should be feeling confident about anything, anywhere.

00:56 You let's save them in Uxbridge, but that's not going to extend to the rest of the country,

01:00 and the picture nationally is still absolutely dreadful for Richie Soonak.

01:04 The results showed an average drop in Tory support of 21 points, matching if not surpassing current polling,

01:13 and that isn't ideal for the government.

01:15 Then there was tactical voting, with Labour or Lib Dems on around 2.5% on seats they didn't expect to win.

01:22 Voters coming even close to this for the next election could be an absolute wipeout for the Conservative Party.

01:27 People are working together to get rid of them.

01:29 And sure, they held Uxbridge, but even that went from a 7,000 majority in a safe Tory seat to less than 500.

01:36 The tide has turned and nearly half of all Leave voters no longer support the Tories.

01:41 Opposition time, baby.

01:45 So what have we learned?

01:47 Firstly that the Lib Dems are still very, very, very embarrassing,

01:51 celebrating with a cannon-fired glitter, if that does sound quite fun.

01:55 And secondly, that charging motorists £12.50 a day isn't very popular.

02:00 Shock.

02:01 Until next time, I've been Alexander Brown, and you haven't.

02:05 [Lib Dems]

02:06 [Pause]