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Can Starmer reinvigorate Welsh Labour?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

Politics, Daily News, News

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Keir Starmer has been meeting the new First Minister Eluned Morgan as part of a two day trip to Wales. While the trip included a visit to a wind farm, Starmer quickly faced questions about the fate of steel workers in Port Talbot. What does this challenge tell us about Starmer's Industrial Strategy and his relationship with the devolved nations? Could Welsh Labour soon face the same anti-incumbency threat that the Conservatives and the SNP faced? 

James Heale is joined by Tom Baldwin, Starmer's biographer, and Ruth Mosalski, political editor at WalesOnline.

Produced by Patrick Gibbons.

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Hello Hello, welcome to Coffey House Shots. I'm James Seal and I'm joined today by

0:37.8

Tom Baldwin, Kierstarm has well preferred and Ruth Nesaski of Wales online.

0:41.8

Now today Kierstarma has been asking of Wales online. Now today Kiastam has been visiting

0:44.1

Wales as part of a two-day trip. The fate of the Port Halbert Steel Plant is in

0:48.0

doubt there and Stama has been saying he can't give false hope. Ruth, how's his trip gone down and what is the likely outcome of this visit to Wales?

0:56.3

Yeah, so he's, you know, he came yesterday, met Eline Ed Morgan, the new first minister for the first time

1:00.8

since she took over the post a few weeks ago. I didn't see the

1:04.6

the first meeting on the stairs of Coteauch Park which is one of the Welsh

1:07.6

government buildings and said it was slightly awkward is that sort of

1:10.3

traditional two leaders stood on some stairs shaking hands type thing.

1:14.0

Today it looked a lot more natural. They both looked very, very relaxed. I was quite surprised

1:18.6

that however likes they did, both to be honest. And stood on a hillside in the Kamarthan shirt.

1:22.4

Sunshine, it was, it was a and stood on a hillside in the command and shirt.

1:22.8

Sunshine, it was a vast change for both of them.

1:26.8

The toll book question does massively hang over the whole thing there.

1:29.8

So today they want us to talk about GB Energy in the future

1:32.2

and lots of positive things, but the

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