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Coffee House Shots

Coffee House Shots live: the Starmer supremacy

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

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🗓️ 7 September 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Join Fraser Nelson, Katy Balls and Kate Andrews, along with special guest Jonathan Ashworth, for a live edition of Coffee House Shots recorded earlier this week. They dissect the first few weeks of the new Labour government and look ahead to the policies autumn, and the budget, might bring. Having surprisingly lost his seat at the election, how blunt will Ashworth be?

The team also answer a range of audience questions, including: how big of a welfare crisis is the government facing? Would – and should – they reform the NHS? And could the challenge Reform UK poses to traditional parties continue to grow? 

Produced by Patrick Gibbons and Megan McElroy. 

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0:00.0

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co-to-theuk forward slash voucher. Welcome to a special a live edition of Coffee House shots from the O' annual Center in Westminster. I'm Fris Nelson and I'm joined by Katie Boz, our political editor, Kate Andrews,

0:40.5

or economics editor, and a special guest, Jonathan Ashworth.

0:43.3

Now as you know Jonathan was amongst many other things, Shadow Work and Pension Secretary for some time.

0:54.8

He's now liberated by the voters of Lester Wreath to now become the head of Labor Together, Think Tank.

1:04.0

So he's going to be giving us his overview on all sorts of things,

1:07.5

but start with, let's go for some slides.

1:10.5

Now, this is the backdrop of a general election. I think it's important when we look at the size of the labor majority. You can see so in the right.

1:17.0

63% of the seats. That's pretty much as high as anybody has come in any post-war parliament. But look at the

1:25.0

share of the votes, 34%. That is lower. A lower share of the vote that has been

1:30.7

seen by any governing party since the war. So when we talk about

1:34.9

the Starmer supremacy we have to remember that it looks like a supremacy in

1:39.2

House of Commons, there's 410 seats, but when it comes to public support, public opinion, it's a lot less fragile

1:46.8

than the majority suggests.

1:48.7

Now if you ask me, I think our first pass-to-post system works, it delivers firm but unfair results but nonetheless

1:55.2

if you're curious armor you're not taking very much for granted because of that in a

1:59.9

way he didn't quite seal the deal during the campaign in my opinion and he thinks he has to do

2:04.4

it in government so that's where he is right now. Now this is the you can see so far

2:11.2

we've had a fairly standard trajectory of favorable to unfavorable

2:15.8

So he's going back to his honeymoon capital has been spent pretty quickly

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