100 days of Starmer: What makes a good PM?
The Story
The Times
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🗓️ 11 October 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Keir Starmer has been prime minister for 100 days. It's the point in any premiership that's considered a measure of how a new leader is performing, ever since the days of Franklin D Roosevelt. So how is Starmer doing compared to his predecessors? Two authors of multiple biographies of former PMs - William Hague and historian and author Sir Anthony Seldon - discuss.
This episode was recorded live at the Cheltenham Literature Festival.
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Guest: Sir Anthony Seldon.
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