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Jan 2024
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What do voters think of Sunak and Starme...

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Today, we look at what’s going on in voters’ minds. The Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show, along with the polling company More In Common have organised a series of focus groups to understand public opinion and what’s going on behind the opinion polls with a range of voters in the north west of England.

Laura and Paddy discuss what the focus groups think of Britain in 2024, Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer.

You can see Britain in a Room on Laura’s programme on BBC One at 9am on Sunday.

You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Gray with Josh Jenkins. The technical producer was Michael Regaard. The senior news editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.

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