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Today in Focus

Anushka Asthana on the perils of Keir Starmer’s fragile majority

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The PM should be enjoying his political honeymoon but, explains Anushka Asthana, his wide but fragile majority is proving difficult to navigate. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:09.0

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by Macmillan Cancer Support. This weekend the Labour Party will descend on Liverpool for its annual party conference.

1:04.4

After winning the biggest landslide since Tony Blair, the whole event should be a victory lap for Kiestarma. Instead,

1:10.3

he's become embroiled in a sleaze scandal.

1:16.0

Turns out, Kist Armour, between 2019 and this election,

1:21.0

accepted more in-entertainment perks than any other MP.

1:25.0

Anushk-Eustana knows the new Prime Minister better than almost any other political journalist in Britain.

1:31.0

But the revelation that he had accepted a hundred thousand

1:35.1

pounds worth of hospitality from Taylor Swift tickets to new suits, new glasses

1:40.1

surprised her. You'd think that he would have been less likely to do that than some of those, from some of the things he said in the past,

1:48.0

particularly about conservative leaders and their helicopter flights.

2:00.0

You may remember Anushka as the launch presenter of this very podcast. Now she is I TV's deputy political editor and she spent this summer writing a fantastic

2:06.8

account of Labour's path to power.

2:10.4

With Stormer's approval ratings tanking after just 10 weeks in office, we discuss if he needs to change course.

2:17.0

From the Guardian, I'm Helen Pitt today in focus the perils of Kistama's

2:26.1

surprisingly fragile majority.

2:30.3

Anushka Astana, welcome back to Today in Focus Towers. It's wonderful to have you here

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