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Meet the City workers packing it in for a run at election in this year's general election - and they're not all Tories
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Meet the City workers packing it in for a run at election in this year's general election - and they're not all Tories
What they are doing right now, i think the game we are in, is i can the conservative right keep rishi sunak out - of the last two? i don't think they can. but that is the game that is being played. in the attempt to do that, the media strategies- are highly contrasted. sunak has gone straight to the people. with that video. the look of that... notjust the video, the launch. reminded me of a david cameron launch, early in cameron's career. so he's saying, "look, i am the man that - can govern britain. " the others, i think they're notjust aiming at mps. i let's remember on the media show, we ar...
The others, i think they're notjust aiming at mp5. i let's remember- on the media show, we are actually quite important. _ there's the leader writers of the conservative - press and there's about 300 of us on social media - who matter in terms of the journalists - and general politics, - people who comment, people like alastair campbell. i'm interrupting just to say, as you mentioned alastair campbell, i think this might be a good moment to bring in a clip from alastair campbell because that question i posed at the top, how much influence does the british press have in this? tony blair's forme...
Cost—of—living crisis. i thought it was really interesting, penny mordaunt this morning in the times was talking about childcare, which is not something that, actually, i thought it was a clever thing because she's reaching beyond, the electorate here is mostly tory party members. that's perhaps not in issue that is particularly high up on their list but it certainly is for the rest of the country, particularly parents of young children like me. i thought that is really interesting that she's reaching beyond that. because their electorate is 2000 people here. i was going to say, my underst...
I thought it was really interesting, penny mordaunt this morning in the times was talking about childcare, which is not something that actually, i thought it was a clever thing because she's reaching the here, is mostly tory party members. that's perhaps not in issue that is particularly high up on their list but it certainly is for the rest of the country, particularly parents of young children like me. i thought that is really interesting that she's reaching beyond that. because their electorate is 2000 people here. i was in a say, my understanding of it was either they're trying to get key ...