124. Hey Brother

Where Politics Meets History

Global

Politics, History, News

4.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Iain and Tessa speak about Keir Starmer on the ropes, fallout from the local elections, a hundred years since the 1926 general strike - and Tessa's brother Duncan Dunlop speaks to our pair about his election win in Scotland.

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0:32.8	I've spent quite a bit of today texting Labour MPs. Let me read out a couple to you.
0:38.3	Overwhelming feeling of is that it for what was meant to be the speech of his life he needs to go. Another one, it's a complete shit show and we can't continue like this.
0:42.3	Another one, he's toast.
0:44.3	He's got to go. I think what he should have done this morning was either say let's go back into the EU
0:48.3	or he should say it's a staged withdrawal from me.
0:51.3	I'm going to make sure this is orderly and there'll be somebody new by Christmas.
1:00.7	Well, Tessa, you are resplendent in orange.
1:03.7	Is this to celebrate a Liberal Democrat victory last week?
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