If you care about Gaza, why vote Labour? - Listener questions episode
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🗓️ 25 July 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Our Listeners ask: With Keir Starmer and his government under fire over their approach to Gaza, and the emergence of Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana's new party, why vote Labour? And with infrastructure and public services in such a terrible state, and the prospect of taxes and bills rising, what are we paying for?
Tom McTague is joined by Megan Kenyon, George Eaton and Will Dunn to discuss.
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| 1:05.0 | It's Friday. That means it's listener question time on the New Statesman podcast. I'm Tom McTagg, |
| 1:13.2 | and I'm here with George Eaton and Megan Kenyon. Hello. Hello. |
| 1:20.4 | This time we've got some great questions sent in by listeners on Labor's approach to Israel and Gaza |
| 1:28.5 | following, I hope, our cover story from a week ago and a reaction from our recent episode |
| 1:35.1 | on the UK water industry. |
| 1:37.7 | So, okay, on this first question on Israel and Gaza, it's actually from a TikTok user, |
| 1:46.5 | B-Swan or B-Swan. I'm not sure how to pronounce that, who posted this question under a clip of our colleague, Andrew Ma, talking |
| 1:52.7 | about which way 16 and 17-year-olds were likely to vote. B-Swan, I think, asks, if you support |
| 1:59.8 | Gaza, why vote Labor? Now, I think this is a |
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