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🗓️ 1 July 2025
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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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