Daily: How to SAVE LABOUR — A blueprint for a winning machine with economist James Meadway

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 22 May 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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With Labour still longing for victories past, where should the party go next? And why are the Tories so much better at dealing with defeat? Former Shadow Economic Advisor and Director of the Progressive Economy Forum James Meadway talks to Dorian Lynskey about prioritising concrete concerns over culture wars, whether Labour will ever win a majority again, and why working in the Shadow Cabinet was one of his worst jobs… • “The Tories are very good at dusting themselves down and working out what to do next.” • “Labour needs to say to voters, ‘This is how your life would be better if you voted Labour’.” • “The focus should be on how you get middle class voters to vote Labour instead of Tory.” • “If you try to reproduce policy tricks and electoral victories, you get negative returns.” Presented by Dorian Lynskey. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:18.6	Some of the sharpest and most forward-looking commentary over the past year has come from my
1:21.2	guest today, James Medway.
1:22.2	He was Chief Economist at the New Economics Foundation
1:25.1	before becoming advisor to Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell for four years. He was recently appointed
1:29.4	Director of the Progressive Economy Forum and he writes frequently for publications including the new statesman Tribune and Navara.
1:35.0	Hi James thanks for joining me.
1:37.0	Thank you for having me on.
1:38.0	So I want to start with a couple of lines of recent piece he wrote for Navara.
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