Can Rachel Reeves win the battle of ideas?
Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards
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4.7 • 909 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Nigel Lawson once said a party that wins the battle of ideas wins the election... Rachel Reeves has started to engage in this battle of ideas during her Mais Lecture. Labour are way ahead in the polls, so is this a battle they can win?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards. |
| 0:13.3 | Thanks so much for tuning in wherever you are. This is new listeners, and there are many. |
| 0:19.4 | This is the podcast where we make sense of the crazy world |
| 0:24.2 | of British politics, put what appears to be random madness into some kind of context, and leave |
| 0:32.4 | each podcast in our time together thinking, yeah, oh yeah, we've got it all sorted. And today really is a vivid example of that. So what we're going to do in our time together thinking, yeah, oh yeah, we've got it all sorted. And today really is a vivid |
| 0:38.8 | example of that. So what we're going to do in our time together if it's okay with all of you? |
| 0:43.8 | I'm going to reflect on a very important element of British politics, and that's the battle of ideas. |
| 0:56.8 | And talking about context, we're going to go back a bit in terms of the Battle of Ideas, and then look at how Rachel Reeves May's lecture |
| 1:03.2 | fits into that and the wider Labour pitch. So that's what we're going to do then. We're going to |
| 1:09.3 | have some brilliant questions. |
| 1:16.9 | Some of you will be listening to this after the live show at King's Place on Tuesday night. |
| 1:23.1 | Some of you before. If before, there are just a few tickets left in the very posh balcony of the main concert hall. So do come along. Or buy the stream ticket. So you can sit there with a glass of |
| 1:29.3 | wine and kind of just make sense. You can also join in with all the unreliable predictions |
| 1:35.8 | and questions and everything. So there's those options. If you're listening to it afterwards, |
| 1:40.1 | thanks for coming along. And there will be more on that in the next podcast. |
| 1:46.1 | So, yeah, the battle of ideas in the context of Rachel Reeves, May's lecture |
| 1:53.1 | and some other things going on in the Labour Party. |
| 1:56.0 | I was very struck long ago by a speech made by Nigel Lawson. He made it in 1991. He was on the |
| 2:05.6 | backbenchers by then, having been, of course, that radical chancellor still cited today by |
| 2:11.1 | Sunak and others as one of their heroes. And on the back benches, he made an observation which kind of chined with me at the time. |
| 2:22.9 | Labour were well ahead in the polls in 1991, and certainly when he made this speech, |
| 2:29.2 | though incidentally, nowhere near as far ahead as they are now. But Lawson's predicted very confidently |
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