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Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

Can a cautious government achieve economic growth?

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.6825 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Reeves is going for growth, but will she succeed? Plus, as Channel 4 screen James Graham’s new drama on Brian Walden’s last interview with Margaret Thatcher, what are the lessons for today’s media and top politicians? Rock & Roll Politics is live at Kings Place next Monday 3rd of February for the first live show in what will be a wild political year. Tickets here. Subscribe to Patreon for live events, bonus podcasts, and to get the regular podcast a day early and ad free.  Written and presented by Steve Richards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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You know, Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards.

0:51.1

Thank you for tuning in and we've got so much to cram in in our time together.

0:57.8

If it's okay with all of you, just really for a bit of fun, in a moment I'm going to do an incoming

1:04.3

Labour Prime Minister's opening statement, the equivalent to Trump's opening couple of days.

1:11.9

You know, what would be in radical verb, the equivalent of what Trump is doing from the kind

1:18.9

of American nationalist right in his opening days in power?

1:24.1

Because there is one thing I admire about it, and that is its sheer, radical, self-confident

1:33.3

verve. Now, it's heading for catastrophe in some areas, I think, and quite speedily. But he has been

1:43.1

elected, and instead of saying, oh, well, you know,

1:46.2

well, what about those kind of wavering Democrats who we've got to keep on board and, oh, you know,

1:51.6

what about CNN? They gave me a hard time last time. I better be careful to try and keep CNN.

1:56.5

None of those calculations which paralyze incoming Labour prime ministers.

2:03.9

He has just gone for it in ways that are alarming, as I say, beyond that kind of ambitious sweep.

2:15.6

So what would have been the equivalent on Friday, July the 5th as we awoke to the

2:22.1

Labour landslide? Just a bit of fun. Then seriously for a moment, looking at Rachel Reeves and

2:30.2

others' plans for economic growth. But then the main reflection for me will be a sort of break from the sort of never-ending

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