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Hi, I'm Anouche.

I'm Harry.

And on today's episode of the New Statesman podcast, we're doing a year in review of British politics ahead of the New Year.

So you and I, Harry, we first started working together in, was it 2014?

Summer of 2014?

Yeah, a golden age. So I was a staff writer on the web desk at the New Statesman.

And you were running a special polling site, May 2015, which in my head is still like the election year.

Right, right.

And actually, to be honest, we wanted to go back a little bit before we go over the year that we've just had.

We wanted to go back to those times because there's been a lot of things that have happened this year where we've turned to each other and been like,

remember in 2015, when that happened?

Because actually 2012, so 10 years ago, it was quite significant because it's the last time Labour was seen as in the ascendancy, wasn't it?

And you've been looking at some polling from back then. So maybe we should start then, and draw some parallels with today.

Yeah, so if you go back a decade, Ed Miliband has a narrow lead over David Cameron, Labour about five or six points ahead of the Tories.

Now, of course, Labour are quite a bit more ahead today, but I think there are some real parallels.

And if you think about Miliband and Cameron and then Kier and Rishi, I don't think they're politics of that different.

Kier's, if you actually look at the policy and everything else, I think Kier's very much in the Miliband mould and Rishi, same as Cameron.

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