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Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

150: Labour, Heatwaves and Glasto

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

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4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Ian, Helen, Adam and Andy discuss Labour’s first year in almost-power, Britain’s recent unseasonal warmth and what might possibly be causing it, and what you can and can’t shout at Glasto.

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0:00.0

Page 94, the Private Eye podcast.

0:03.5

Hello and welcome to another episode of page 94. My name's Andrew Hunter-Murray and I'm here in the Private Eye Office with Helen Lewis, Adam McQueen and Ian Heslop. We're back. It's warm and we'll be talking a bit about that later. But we're going to start off getting in a couple of days ahead of the great big anniversary.

0:23.7

Do you remember where you were when Liz Trust lost her seat?

0:27.9

It's coming up to a year since that sad day.

0:33.1

And it's first year report card time for the new Labor.

0:34.2

Sorry, not New Labor.

0:35.2

You know what I mean.

0:37.6

The increasingly aged Labour government. Helen, how's it going? Not well. Oh, no new Labour. You know what I mean. The increasingly aged Labour government.

0:39.9

Helen, how's it going?

0:40.7

Not well.

0:41.4

Oh, no.

0:45.9

I mean, you ask actually, I remember my husband woke me up to tell me about Liz Truss.

0:49.5

I had fallen into a stupor by that point, and he was very excited about it.

0:52.8

He wanted me to be awake, so I would see that momentous time.

0:55.1

No, it's going really badly. I mean, we're not just in the, well, in the moment we're in the middle of a big welfare rebellion and another

1:00.3

U-turned-by-Starmer, but he has given a series of interviews in which he's admitted it's not going

1:04.7

well. So he said that he regretted the island of strangers' speech. He didn't read it properly before he delivered it because he was too

1:11.0

preoccupied with foreign affairs. There is a feeling that they really stuffed up over winter fuel

1:16.3

allowance and double stuffed as well in the sense that it was one of their first big, memorable

1:22.1

policy changes. And then they got themselves to a policy where most people in the polling thought the limit

1:28.3

should be brought down, fewer middle class pensioners should get this, but then they overcorrected

1:33.9

and they're now giving it to quite a little well-off people. But that then stuffs their argument

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