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Sunak and Starmer are both failing to inspire voters with lack of trust an issue
National World - LocalTV
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18/04/2024
Interview with politics expert Dr Steve McCabe
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So Rishi Sonek was supposed to be this sane, grown-up candidate.
00:05
And of course, the view was that by getting rid of Johnson,
00:08
and of course, Trust replaced him, and of course, we knew the disaster there,
00:12
Sonek was supposed to lead to a boost in the polls.
00:15
That has not happened. So he is deeply unpopular nationally.
00:20
The Conservatives seem to be running out of ideas.
00:24
And indeed, he's unpopular with his own party.
00:27
Contrast that with Keir Starmer, of course, he sort of inherits a pretty broken party
00:32
after the Lats election in 2019, the "get Brexit done in December"
00:37
- very unusual to have an election at that time.
00:41
But of course, the idea that he would be leading so much in the polls by this point
00:46
would have seemed pretty ridiculous.
00:48
But dare I say it, Starmer does not excite the public in the way that Tony Blair did in 1997.
00:55
So what I'm saying is that nationally, the polls suggest that people are disillusioned
01:00
with the Conservative Party, but if they vote for anyone,
01:04
it's the Labour Party with a certain amount of reluctance.
01:07
Voter apathy, disillusionment and lack of trust with politicians does appear to be an issue,
01:14
with research by Opinium suggesting that less than one in five 18-24-year-olds
01:21
trust politicians and more than four million under-35s could not be registered to vote.
01:28
Younger people do not have the same interest in politics that I believe I had when I was young.
01:34
And indeed, it's a big issue.
01:37
Now, of course, there may be a number of reasons for that.
01:40
They see the politician, it's the punch and judy club.
01:43
Also, I think the problem is it's seen to be somehow archaic.
01:47
So maybe there is a good shout for changing the way in which we vote by using electronic means.
01:54
But do I think that's going to happen any time soon?
01:56
No, because there are all sorts of problems with doing that also.
01:59
Also.
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