100 days of Labour: Starmer’s stuttering start
Political Fix
Financial Times
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🗓️ 11 October 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
As Labour reaches 100 days in government we take stock of how Sir Keir Starmer and his team have performed. Host Lucy Fisher is joined by Political Fix regulars Robert Shrimsley, Miranda Green and Jim Pickard to assess Labour’s stumbles – as well as its achievements – as the party gets to grips with power. The panel also examines what made it into Labour's flagship workers’ rights legislation – finally published this week. Plus, after the surprise elimination of moderate candidate James Cleverly from the Tory leadership race, how is the final stretch of the contest shaping up between rightwingers Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick?
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, |
| 0:06.2 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. |
| 0:09.5 | It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:13.8 | Well today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:16.2 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon |
| 0:20.4 | and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
| 0:26.0 | 2023. VP.com slash and not all. |
| 0:30.0 | Labor reaches a major milestone this week, a hundred days. |
| 0:35.0 | One word to sum it up. |
| 0:37.0 | Rocky. |
| 0:39.0 | Faltering. |
| 0:40.0 | Underwhelming, although maybe they wouldn't be able to agree on a single word, which is part of the problem. |
| 0:47.0 | Hello and welcome to Political Fix from the Financial Times with me, Lucy Fisher. |
| 0:51.0 | Coming up, what have we learned about the kind of government |
| 0:54.7 | labor will be? Plus Kistama sets out the biggest overhaul to employment rights in |
| 0:59.6 | a generation. And then there were two. What went wrong for late favourite James Cleverly in the Tory leadership race? |
| 1:06.0 | To discuss at all, I'm joined in the studio by political fix regulars Miranda. |
| 1:10.0 | Hi Miranda. |
| 1:12.0 | Hello Lucy. Robert Schimsley. Hi Miranda. Hello Lucy. Hello Lucy. |
| 1:13.0 | Robert Shimsley, hi Robert. |
| 1:14.0 | Hi, Lucy. |
| 1:15.0 | And the F.T. is Jim Picard. |
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