83. Keir Starmer plunges Labour into civil war
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🗓️ 10 May 2021
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The Labour party is in turmoil after mostly disastrous election results in England and Scotland. Devoid of a vision, the leadership is preparing to attack the left.
How can Labour be saved - or can it? Joining me are former Shadow Cabinet ministers John McDonnell and Jon Trickett, Labour MPs Kim Johnson and Nadia Whittome - while Preston Council Labour leader Matthew Brown explains how they bucked the national trend with radical policies.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show, Blimey. We're to begin. The Labour Party has been plunged into chaos |
| 0:15.1 | for multiple reasons. I suppose the most recent reason is that the leader of the Labour |
| 0:20.8 | Party and his team have had sacked the party chair, the deputy leader Angelina and attempt |
| 0:26.1 | to scapego her for the disastrous failings of Keir Starmer and his team in the elections |
| 0:32.6 | this week. They also have the ice pick out for various other people. It's not entirely |
| 0:37.1 | sure where the so-called re-tourful matter is because of the chaos that has enveloped Labour's |
| 0:42.5 | top operation. Now, we've got a very stellar line up today to talk about, I think what is a |
| 0:49.9 | pretty big moment in Labour history. I think this is a what on the verge of some sort of turning point |
| 0:56.4 | about where the Labour Party goes, about the battle for the soul, the heart and soul of a party that |
| 1:03.0 | was founded 120 years ago to represent the interests of working people in this country. Now, |
| 1:08.4 | of course, we saw last week the terrible results in Hartlepool, a seat which, of course, |
| 1:14.4 | was held by the Labour Party under its predecessor, Keir Starmer's predecessor, it's not less than |
| 1:20.0 | four years ago, when over half of the electorate in Hartlepool voted for the Labour Party, even though |
| 1:25.2 | back in 2015, it was a more marginal seat for the Labour Party than it was in 2019, when less people |
| 1:31.2 | voted for the Brexit Party in 2019 than had voted for UKIP in 2015. And yet, of course, Labour |
| 1:36.3 | managed to take that vote, or much of it in 2017, this time round, not only did Labour lose votes |
| 1:42.8 | to other parties, but their own vote collapsed as Labour voters did not come out to vote in Hartlepool. |
| 1:48.4 | We've seen across the country, of course, Labour losing council seats, that there have been |
| 1:54.3 | positives, which we're also going to talk about, because I think there are lessons to be learned, |
| 1:58.5 | not least in Wales, under the leadership of Mark Drakeford, but also, for example, Andy Burnham |
| 2:04.8 | in Manchester, Siddi Kahn in London, and local examples like Solford and Preston, where Labour |
| 2:11.5 | parties with radical leaderships and radical policies, which are actually given incentive for |
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