From Johnson to Starmer – How much does character matter?

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.6 • 825 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

We are obsessed by the character of leaders, even if context, ideas and external circumstances can determine the fate of a government as much as character. Keir Starmer has been unusually hard to pin down, which is why I was keen to speak to Tom Baldwin. Although he has done many interviews to promote his new book on the Labour leader, I sensed there was more to explore – and we do. Plus, reflections on the challenge for Labour after the budget and major assembly notices for the co-operative. Rock & Roll Politics is live at the Ropetackle Arts Centre in Shoreham on Weds March 13. Steve is speaking at the York Literature Festival on Sat Mar 16. Tickets £10. Venue: Memorial Hall, St Peter's School, Clifton, York, YO30 6AB Rock & Roll Politics is live at Kings Place London on Tue March 26. Support the podcast on Patreon for bonus podcasts and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:13.6	Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards. Thanks a lot for tuning in wherever you are in the UK and the rest of the world.
1:19.6	Before we get going, if it's okay with you, I just want to thank all of you who subscribe to the
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1:30.2	kinds of things like rock and roll politics mugs but crucially and centrally a bonus podcast each month
1:36.8	and the one for March will be arriving in the next few days and on the Patreon rock and roll politics cooperative grouping,
1:47.7	we're looking at Labor, as they built up to a big election victory in 1997,
1:55.8	based on interviews I did as political editor of the New Statesman
1:59.9	with all the players in that era.
2:03.4	And we've already looked at an interview I did with Claire Short, which was explosive
2:10.4	and insurrectionary. And yet she remained in the shadow cabinet and then the cabinet until
2:16.6	she resigned of her own
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