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333: Why Keir Starmer is imploding

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🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Graham Linehan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the unravelling of the Labour government, Trumpism vs trans, the crackdown on pub banter and the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Spike podcast. I'm Fraser Myers. Delighted to be joined as ever by Spike's editor, Tom Slater.

0:06.0

Hello. And returning guest, one of our favorite returning guests, Graham Linehan, creator of Father Ted and many other brilliant sitcoms. Welcome.

0:14.0

Thank you.

0:15.0

So loads to talk about today. We'll talk about labours unraveling, we'll talk about the pushback against trans

0:22.3

in the US and the Gaza ceasefire deal. Before we get on to that, I just wanted to let everyone

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