Can Starmer change the subject?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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James Heale speaks to Katy Balls and John McTernan.
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| 0:25.2 | Hello and welcome to Coffee How Shots. I'm James Heeler. I'm joined today by the spectators |
| 0:30.1 | political editor Katie Balls and John McTerm and the former Labour Advisor. Now Katie, |
| 0:34.5 | first of all, it should have been a great week for Labour with those two very impressive |
| 0:38.8 | by elections last week in midbeds and tanworth. Instead, we're all talking about splits |
| 0:43.1 | in Labour's French bench on Israel and Gaza. Tell us where we're at and all of this. |
| 0:47.2 | Yeah, I think what's interesting is, as you say, you would expect this to be on this week's where |
| 0:51.7 | Labour O'Cocker hoop when you speak to them. I was at Rachel Reeves' book launch, more of which |
| 0:56.0 | I think we'll come to later. Actually, every conversation you had of a Labour MP there |
| 1:02.2 | and also to some parliament is it's being a really difficult week for us and that is because |
| 1:07.0 | of Kistama's position on Gaza, on Palestine and how it's being tested. We've spoken a lot about |
| 1:13.2 | this week already on the podcast, but I suppose it's about where now does it go next because Kistama |
| 1:19.2 | had that meeting with Mr. MMPs in the party, having now spoken to a few at it. It wasn't |
| 1:25.6 | really his fireworks meeting that I think as ever, people like perhaps such as myself, |
| 1:30.5 | and like to suggest they will be. It was pretty calm, but I think it's also fair to say that it |
| 1:36.3 | didn't fix the discomfort already that over Kistama's position. And though it feels so, |
| 1:42.4 | so he wasn't listening mode, I don't think it's particularly changed things. |
| 1:47.6 | It's not a thing you can listen on because the demand that's emerging in the Labour Party is |
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