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Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

How can Rishi Sunak cut Labour's lead?

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.6825 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

A bonus New Year episode for all in the Rock N Roll Politics Co-operative: With Keir Starmer following a Blairite pre-election strategy, Steve Richards thinks Rishi Sunak has only one route to reduce Labour's lead. But will he fail to take it?  Support Rock & Roll Politics on Patreon and get exclusive benefits including bonus episodes and exclusive merchandise only available to subscribers: https://www.patreon.com/RockNRollPolitics Buy Steve’s book Turning Points: Crisis and Change in Modern Britain, from 1945 to Truss through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll help fund the podcast by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too. Tickets for the next Rock n Roll Politics Live: Kings Place on  26th March 2024 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards,

0:42.9

the first of 2024. Thanks so much for tuning in wherever you are.

0:48.9

This will be slightly shorter. Normal services will be resumed at the beginning of next week, where I will begin

0:56.9

also, again, reading out some of the brilliant emails that are coming in. I've had great emails,

1:03.0

actually, from people who came to the live show, where at the live show, which rarely and unusually was recorded and put out as a bonus

1:14.4

just after Christmas. Some of you may have heard it. Someone in the audience, Christian Walmart,

1:20.4

said, what should Labour's slogan be at the next general election? We are in election year. Happy New Year, everybody. Happy election year.

1:32.2

And anyway, some of you emailed about that. We've got other things. All that next week,

1:37.6

I'm just going to pop up now if it's okay because I'm kind of on the road with a few New Year reflections.

1:45.6

And then, as I say, early next week, the whole cooperative will be back in action.

1:50.5

So if you've got thoughts, get them in over the coming days.

1:55.7

The New Year period is always fascinating in politics because party leaders are obliged, really,

2:04.7

to at least affect definition. Precise definition is quite dangerous in politics, but the art is to

2:14.0

affect clarity and definition.

2:23.5

And so their chosen themes tell us a lot about them and the pitch they are going to make.

2:26.3

Now, we will explore this in much more detail in the coming weeks

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