Did Sunak steal Starmer's thunder?

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🗓️ 4 January 2024

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Summary

Keir Starmer delivered his new year's speech, promising 'Project Hope' ahead of the general election. Critics claimed the speech was rhetoric heavy, low on policy. Having attacked the Prime Minister for dithering over the May general election, Rishi Sunak later announced it was his 'working assumption' to hold the general election in autumn 2024. Was this a communications win for No.10? And can Starmer still garner support by playing it safe? Natasha Feroze speaks to James Heale and former Labour advisor John McTernan.

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0:15.4	Hello and welcome to coffeehouse shots,
0:21.2	the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.
0:23.6	I'm Natasha Frose and I'm joined by James Heel and one of our veteran guests, John
0:27.6	M returnen, the former political advisor to Labour.
0:30.8	So Kistama has delivered his New Year's speech of 2024 and here are a couple of things he had to say.
0:36.0	And I won't lie. I've hated the futility of opposition.
0:41.0	The powerlessness and yes, the pain that comes from watching the
0:47.4	tourists drive the country I love into the rocks of decline. I also promise this. A politics that treads a little lighter on all of our lives.
1:00.0	Because that's the thing about populism or nationalism.
1:05.6	Any politics fuelled by division.
1:08.6	It needs your full attention, needs you constantly focusing on this week's common enemy.
1:14.0	John, I think last time we had you on was over his Gaza gaff and things weren't looking too bright for him.
1:22.0	How do you think he did today?
1:24.1	I think he did the right thing for a new year message that basically at this point in the
1:28.1	cycle we know there's going to be election and Ritchie's announced confirms it's going to be
1:32.1	this year.
1:33.0	And you have to give a kind of frame for the election and the frame is change, change, change for a purpose.
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