UK Election: Can Anything Stop Boris Johnson? - with Dr Kevin Cunningham

UK Election: Can Anything Stop Boris Johnson? - with Dr Kevin Cunningham

First-past-the-post, tactical voting, Labour leavers, Tory remainers... it all ads up to a a formidable task for pollsters to call the outcome of GE19. But the numbers we have so far strongly suggest Boris Johnson is on course for a majority. Pollster and politics lecturer Dr Kevin Cunningham joins Hugh and Pat to look at those polls and ask is there any scope for Labour and other parties to stop Johnson, or is it too late?

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