Hello, hello, hello. Happy, happy Easter. Welcome to the show. Today, Labour, we've got to talk about this

having weeks one year on. So we can either avoid it, ignore it, pretend it's not a thing, or we can have

another, I think it's very thoughtful. It's going to be a thoughtful discussion about Keir Starmer

and the Labour Party a year after his resounding victory in the leadership contest.

Oh, who boy, where are we going to begin with this one? So we've got to be fantastic guests. I

will bring in Shirley, but I'm just going to set, I think just set the scene, let's set the scene

shall we? So clearly Labour suffered a brutal shellacking, if that's a term we're using British politics,

not normally, but in the 2019 election. And in the rubble of defeat, a traumatised Labour party

had a leadership contest in which Keir Starmer came on top with over 50% of the vote winning

on the first preferences. Now, if we were going to distill his platform, what did Keir Starmer

stand for in that leadership contest? I think it's very clear what he stood for. It was to retain

the core domestic radical policies of the Corbyn area, but combine it with competence,

party unity and electability. And I think all of those are important to point out because, I mean,

take unity, I think it was definitely the case that lots of people from all wings of the Labour

Party just felt exhausted by the never, the forever war of internal Labour politics. People clearly

on the electability point were pretty fed up and traumatised by devastating conservative

victory and what that meant for them to the country as a whole. They wanted to kick the Tories out.

What is the point, of course, of being in politics if you don't want to replace the Tories

with a viable alternative government? And they kind of felt that I think a lot of people felt

like he doesn't have the baggage of Jeremy Corbyn. How could the media possibly destroy

Sir Keir Starmer, former director of public prosecutions simply wouldn't have the same

impacts those media attacks? Where are we a year later? Let's just go back, in fact. So,

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