100 Days of Starmer: the verdict

Coffee House Shots

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🗓️ 12 October 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Today marks Labour’s 100th day in office. But they are unlikely to be popping champagne corks in Downing Street – even if Lord Alli offered to pay for the Dom Pérignon. This has been a disheartening time for the government and those who wished it well. The promise of dramatic change has been overshadowed by a series of errors, misjudgments and scandals that one would associate more with an administration in its dying days than a government enjoying a fresh mandate, a massive majority and an absent opposition.

Former shadow culture secretary Thangam Debbonaire and former deputy prime minister Thérèse Coffey join The Spectator's Katy Balls to discuss what went wrong and – if we think hard enough – what went right?

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0:17.8	Hello and welcome to a special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots.
0:25.3	I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by Tresse Coffey, former Cabinet Minister and Conservative
0:30.0	MP and Thangam Devinar, former Shadow Cabinet member and Labour MP.
0:34.6	We're going to be looking at Kirsdama's first 100 days what went wrong and perhaps what
0:40.4	went right if we think hard enough.
0:41.9	To begin, nice to see you both. Obviously you've
0:45.4	now managed to escape Parliament. Yes. Not initially by choice, but I'm sure the perks are coming
0:51.0	to you on a day by day basis.
0:53.1	To begin looking at the first 100 days,
0:56.3	we obviously, often Westminster,
0:59.0	see it as a very important thing,
1:01.2	how they go, can you hit the ground running but yet most
1:04.8	voters aren't really thinking you know he's got 10 more days to prove himself before he
1:08.8	hits at Mark but then what impression do you think this labor government has made on the public in that time?
1:14.4	Well it's obviously been a complicated picture. There were riots during the summer and you know
1:18.8	events do happen. I think having someone who's been in charge of the Crown Prosecution Service
1:24.4	in charge of the country at a time of riots that played to Kia's Darma's strengths.
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