S01-EP15 - Richard Danbury on television debates, old vs new media & the BBC
TALKING POLITICS
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Labour's Talent Pool Isn't Huge
To stand you need to have 35 MPs sign up for you, it doesn't sound like a lot but of course there aren't that many Labour MPs left at the moment. I think we're going to discover today where the Tristram Hunt who I mentioned earlier is standing or not and I think it slightly depends on whether he thinks he can get those 35. It's entirely possible at the moment that we will just see a Burnham Cooper slugfest which would be a curious election because it wouldn't be one that would obviously polarise the party around its traditional fault lines.
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