Are strike politics trickier for Rishi Sunak or Keir Starmer?
Daily Politics from the New Statesman
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🗓️ 15 December 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Nurses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland went on strike today for the first time in their history. With the UK facing “winter lockdown” following the latest wave of strikes and with inflation still high, Rishi Sunak’s government is under pressure. Labour leader Keir Starmer has described the nurses' strike as a “badge of shame for this government”, while the Prime Minister has unveiled his plan to crack down on migrants claiming asylum in Britain.
Anoosh Chakelian, Rachel Wearmouth and Freddie Hayward discuss public support for the strikes, which remains relatively high, and how long the momentum behind them can last, as well as Labour's position and why shadow health secretary Wes Streeting is challenging the British Medical Association.
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| 1:11.5 | Rachel. And on today's episode of The New Statesman podcast, we discuss the politics of strikes, |
| 1:17.2 | and you ask us, is Nigel Forage coming back? And then stick around for an extra chat with our |
| 1:22.8 | tech editor, Oscar Williams, about the world of hacking and digital espionage, especially when |
| 1:27.2 | it comes to British politicians' phone numbers. And remember, if you want to submit a question for |
| 1:35.8 | you ask us, you can go to newstatesman.com forward slash You Ask Us. We're recording this morning |
| 1:40.6 | on the first day of the nurses' strike, and this is sort of one of two major issues, |
| 1:45.4 | preoccupying with you soon like this week, so we're going to talk about strikes in the first half |
| 1:48.8 | of the podcast, and then get to the asylum policy that he's unveiling in the second half. |
| 1:54.4 | What's interesting is that Labour have been having a tricky time with this. We're |
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