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Tactical Voting Has Become A "Key Dynamic" Of British Politics
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8:12Now Playing“Who is best placed to achieve X or remove Y is one of the key considerations that voters are not only aware of, but are quite very good at working out.”
Tactical voting has become one of the “key dynamics” of British politics, which is when voters choose the candidate that is “best placed to remove the one that they most dislike”, says Patrick English , Head of Elections and Political and Social Data at YouGov.
Patrick English was speaking to Ed Vaizey on Times Radio. Listen live every day from 10am-1pm.
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