How good is Keir Starmer?

Not Another One

Richards Green Montgomerie Martin

News, Not Another One, General Election, Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, Number 10, Political, Politics, Political Commentary

4.7 • 567 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Keir Starmer has led Labour from election slaughter in Dec 2019 to an overwhelming poll lead now.

But coming to politics late he is the least well known of the Labour leaders who have contested elections from opposition and even in the campaign questions are asked about his handling of the Diane Abbott saga. Who is he? What will he be like as Prime Minister?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to a brand new podcast, a group of us thought with a general election, a very odd general election on many different levels. It will be good for us to get
0:22.9	together, to delve deep, to try and make sense of it all. And from an almost unique perspective,
0:31.5	we disagree on lots of things agreeably, but there are genuine disagreements. So I'm Steve Richards, Tim Montgomery is here,
0:39.5	Miranda Green is here, and so is Ian Martin. And we are not another one, but this one's going to be
0:46.4	very different. Before we have our discussion at the start of our election campaign delving
0:54.0	deepness, I want to thank our sponsors, Get Living,
0:57.8	and I'll talk a bit about them, about halfway through our discussion. And what we thought we
1:04.5	would do as our first podcast is to pose the question, how good is Keir Stama? There he is,
1:13.2	miles ahead in the opinion polls,
1:22.3	having inherited a party in deep despair after the slaughter in December 2019. But before I widen the discussion, I just want to contextualize it. The question is a really complex and interesting one, because every other
1:30.5	Labour leader, when they got the job, had been clearly defined by their role in all the
1:36.9	endless battles within the Labour Party, each of them, to take two. Tony Blair, by the time he
1:42.6	became leader in 1994, was easily identified as a kind of
1:47.6	moderniser in inverted commas and had been in battles trying to, in inverted commas, modernise the Labour
1:54.3	Party. Neil Kinnock, when he became leader in 1983, had defined himself partly against the
2:00.3	Benite revolution of the early 80s. He didn't vote for
2:04.0	Tony Benn in 81, but he was clearly of the left. We knew about him very clearly. And in a way,
2:11.2	with both of those and all the others, what followed wasn't much of a surprise. They were rooted
2:16.3	somewhere. Now, in my view, Kirstama's most
2:19.4	defining role in his life was Director of Public Prosecutions, an impartial public role. He's been an MP for a
2:28.0	relatively short time. On one level, I think we would all agree he's done brilliantly. I mean,
2:33.8	when you're that far ahead in the polls, you're doing something right.
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