Can Labour win the next election?
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🗓️ 20 June 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Our listeners ask: Do Labour have a realistic chance of winning the next election, and can Reform become a party for all regions of the UK?
Also in the show, another listener asks how much is being done, or ever really has been, over the issue of class in British society and politics?
Anoosh Chakelian is joined by George Eaton and Rachel Cunliffe.
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