(100) Days of Starmer
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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On today's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush and Anoosh Chakelian sit down to appraise Keir Starmer's first hundred days as Labour leader. Then, in You Ask Us, they cast their eye over the Chris Grayling debacle and what it says about the government's party management.
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| 0:00.0 | Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
| 0:11.0 | So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas. |
| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to the new statesman podcast. I'm Anu Shekeleon and I'm joined by my |
| 0:37.2 | colleague Stephen Bush. Unfortunately, Alva Ray wasn't feeling well today. Today we're talking |
| 0:42.0 | about Kiestama's first 100 days in office and what his challenges are and then you |
| 0:46.7 | ask us what should the government learn from the Chris Grayling debacle. So Kieerstammer is now over his first 100 days as Labour leader. We spoke |
| 1:00.7 | about him a bit last week in terms of his PMQ's performances, but Stephen, you've been looking overall at his leadership and you've found his sort of central dilemma, which is he's been doing well but his parties kind of trailing him. |
| 1:14.4 | Tell me a bit more about that. The sort of fascinating thing about Kistama I think is in many ways |
| 1:21.2 | right he is in the exact same political position as David Cameron actually is David Cameron |
| 1:26.8 | throughout much of his leadership. So like David Cameron he has inherited a party and has lost multiple elections in succession. |
| 1:35.0 | The third in the case of David Cameron, the worst sort of losing run in the Conservative Party's history, |
| 1:40.0 | epochal defeat in both cases and a very long, long way back to come, and a government |
| 1:45.3 | with a majority of you know about the same size. |
| 1:47.8 | And like David Cameron, when you look at the polls, and indeed when you talk to the majority of their |
| 1:52.0 | MPs throughout most of their time as well most of the 100 days and for most of David Cameron's time as leader. |
| 1:58.0 | Most MPs think that broadly, Kist Armour is the best thing they have going for them. |
| 2:03.0 | As many, and most MPs thought David Cameron was the best thing they had going for them. |
| 2:08.0 | And intriguingly, of course, in both cases, what they have, another thing they have in common is they have a minority but still |
| 2:14.4 | large group of MPs to their right in the case of David Cameron to their left in the case of |
| 2:19.2 | Kiestarma who have an uncertain relationship with them, right? |
| 2:23.0 | You have people who are in the front bench, |
| 2:25.0 | you have people who are more opposed to as a project, |
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