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Dec 2020
37m 57s

Abstain On His Conscience

THE TIMES
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Matt Chorley is joined by Times columnists Daniel Finkelstein and David Aaronovitch to discuss the day's news; Matt takes a look at Keir Starmer's polling with Ben Page from Ipsos MORI, then John Rentoul from The Independent , former advisor to Miliband Miatta Fahnbulleh and Patrick Maguire, who co-wrote the book: Left Out, the Inside Story of Labour under Corbyn join Matt to discuss how the Labour party is doing under his leadership.

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