Values or the economy – what’s driving our politics? Podcast with Paula Surridge

The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts features Paula Surridge once again, who since last time has been promoted to Professor – congratulations!

We talk about what’s driving British politics, whether the Conservatives can win next time – and what lessons she sees in the data for the Liberal Democrats.

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Show notes

• Some of Paula’s previous appearances: on the role of values, the Lib Dem win in Tiverton & Honiton and how Boris Johnson won the 2019 general election.
• How the polls can be wrong – but why you should still pay attention to them.
• The British Social Attitudes Survey.
• The moderate pitch of Mrs Thatcher in 1979.
• Jonn Elledge on how Labour winning power would change the terms of British politics.
• What that reference to seven bins was about.
• The long-term liberalisation of Britain.
• The British General Election of 2019 by Rob Ford, Tim Bale, Will Jennings and Paula Surridge: Amazon / Waterstones / Bookshop.org.*
• Paula Surridge on Twitter/X.
• Theme tune by Hugo Lee.
• New to listening to podcasts? Here are some tips on how to listen to podcasts.
• Check out some of this show’s most popular previous episodes.

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