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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Numbers Game: Do the polls give Sunak’s Tories any hope?
Description: If you look at the data, this government has been dreadful. But take a closer look and there’s still a chance they might turn the polls on its head. Thankfully, that chance is tiny, but it’s still a chance nonetheless. Ben Walker is a journalist for the New Statesman and has analysed the numbers to work out the reality of a Tory turnaround. He joins Marie Le Conte in The Bunker.
“There’s been elections worse than this and parties have recovered.” – Ben Walker.
“The data doesn’t take into account the sentiment of the nation.” –...