139: 2019 Election Special

Well, here we go again. We’re seven days out from polling day here in the UK, and I don’t know about you but I’m not feeling great about it. So as a form of therapy I dragged Patrick Maguire, who’s been travelling around the country as part of his role as the New Statesman ’s politics correspondent, back to the podcast to offer some reassurance. He couldn’t offer any. Anyway - we did have a fascinating chat about regional differences in voting patterns; how parts of Wales and the North East have never been the anti-Tory heartlands which they’re sometimes portrayed as; whether housing, transport and other similarly wonk-ish concerns are coming up on the doorstep; and how Napoleon III’s stay in Southport helped it win the title of “the Paris of the North”. Skylines is the podcast from the New Statesman’s cities site, CityMetric. It’s hosted by Jonn Elledge and produced by Nick Hilton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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139: 2019 Election Special is an episode from Skylines, the CityMetric podcast.

This episode is 28:32 long.

This episode was published on Dec 5, 2019.

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