Andrew Marr: "The smell in Whitehall? An invigorating reek of change."
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
A record number of new MPs are flooding through Westminster, Starmer has been on a tour of the UK, and this morning the metro mayors gathered in Downing Street.
What is the new reality for the UK? Do we need to think seriously about electoral reform? And how is Macron going to get out of his political deadlock?
Hannah Barnes, associate editor, is joined by Andrew Marr, political editor; and Freddie Hayward, political correspondent.
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| 0:00.0 | The New Statesman. |
| 0:02.0 | Hello, I'm Hannah Barnes, associate editor at The New Statesman and you're listening to the New Statesman podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | As we encounter the first weeks of a new labor government we will continue to |
| 0:14.9 | bring you daily episodes with the politics team to discuss and analyze the new |
| 0:19.6 | direction being taken in the country. I'm joined in the studio today by the new |
| 0:23.9 | statesman's political editor Andrew Mar and by our political correspondent Freddie |
| 0:28.3 | Haywood. Have you recovered Andrew? Not really. I'm still in a slightly dazed, you know, morning after the night before mode where on the night before there was no alcohol taken just an awful lot of analysis given. |
| 0:42.0 | Why are you up all night, weren't you for LBC? |
| 0:45.0 | You've done another essay for us this week in the New Statesman, |
| 0:50.0 | which will be on the new stands on Thursday. |
| 0:53.0 | What is the new reality that we are now confronted with? |
| 0:58.0 | You know, there's a line actually, it's the last line of your essay, |
| 1:00.0 | so I hate to skip right to the end, but let's begin with that |
| 1:02.0 | because you say, the smell in Whitehall |
| 1:05.2 | sharp and unfamiliar it's the invigorating reek of change. Well I think it really is I mean I think I was very struck just sitting at home watching |
| 1:15.2 | Kia Stama on that first day greeting the new cabinet and then giving a press conference. |
| 1:20.8 | And the first thing that struck me is he has really taken ownership of this in a way that he seems completely |
| 1:27.9 | Familiar with power familiar with authority entirely relaxed much more relaxed than he was on the campaign trail. |
| 1:34.8 | And I have always thought he wasn't a brilliant opposition leader in many ways, he wasn't |
| 1:39.0 | telling strong stories, he wasn't running towards arguments, or the things we've been talking about on this |
| 1:43.4 | podcast in the past but that he might prove to be exactly the kind of Prime Minister |
| 1:47.9 | Britain needs at this moment in other words a tough old nut who is able to take the |
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