How is Sultana's new party ever going to work? - Listeners questions episode
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🗓️ 11 July 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Our listeners ask: How will Zarah Sultana's new party on the left ever be able to square wildly different views among those involved?
Also in the show, listeners ask how well, or badly, have Labour been dealing with the media and whether Reform will now pull their support for voting reform.
Anoosh Chakelian is joined by Rachel Cunliffe and Megan Kenyon to answer all.
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| 0:00.0 | The New Statesman |
| 0:02.0 | Hello, I'm Anoushia Kellyan and this is our weekly listener questions episode of the New Statesman podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | And I'm here with my colleagues, Megan Kenyon and Rachel Cunliff. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello, both of you. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello. |
| 0:17.0 | Happy Friday. |
| 0:18.0 | Happy Friday. |
| 0:19.0 | Before we get into this episode, I want to let you know that on Sunday, I'm hosting a special episode of the podcast. |
| 0:24.8 | The Green Party is electing a new leader and we have the only broadcasted leadership debate of the campaign so far. |
| 0:30.8 | The Green MP Adrian Ramsey, who's the current co-leader and half of a joint ticket with Ellie Chowens, |
| 0:36.7 | will face his challenger Zach Polanski |
| 0:38.9 | right here in the New Statesman studio and it's going to be brilliant and fiery or at least as |
| 0:43.5 | fiery as you get when you're a Green Party leadership candidate discussion so make sure you're |
| 0:47.9 | following the New Statesman podcast in your favourite podcast app to get it as soon as it's published |
| 0:52.2 | now let's see what questions we've got here. |
| 0:55.7 | Thanks to everyone who sent one in, we've had a bumper crop this week, and we do read them all, |
| 1:00.3 | so please keep sending them in. Today we're going to talk about the prospect of a new left-wing |
| 1:04.7 | party, Labour's relationship with the media, and whether a rising reform will change its position |
| 1:10.2 | on voting reform. |
| 1:11.8 | So let's kick off with our first question from Simon Weaver who asks, |
| 1:15.1 | what are the other four pro-Palestine independent MPs that aren't called Jeremy or Zara |
| 1:20.4 | actually doing with their time in Parliament? I've not heard a peep. Last I heard they were |
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