Is Jeremy Corbyn trolling Keir Starmer?
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The former Labour leader’s new coalition could be “a real force” in Parliament, says Andrew Marr.
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Jeremy Corbyn has formed a new “Independent Alliance” of MPs, united around opposition to the Gaza war. Answering a listener question on this “You Ask Us” episode, Andrew Marr says Corbyn could well attract more Labour MPs to his cause. This would make the Independent Alliance bigger than Reform UK, and could influence policy from the Left.
Andrew Marr joins Hannah Barnes and Rachel Cunliffe on this listener questions episode of the podcast. They also discuss Keir Starmer’s plans for UK-EU relations, and whether the Prime Minister will row back on some Brexit agreements.
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| 1:08.0 | Statesman. Hello I'm Hannah Barnes and you're listening to the New Statesman Podcast. |
| 1:16.0 | This is You Ask Us, our weekly episode where every Friday we do our very best to answer as many |
| 1:22.0 | listener questions as we can. |
| 1:24.2 | Thank you so much to everyone who has sent them in. We love hearing from you and we do read them all, |
| 1:28.7 | so please do keep them coming in via the web link in the episode description or you can leave a |
| 1:34.0 | comment on Spotify or YouTube. To go through today's picks I am joined in the |
| 1:40.0 | studio by the new statesman's political editor Andrew Mar and our associate political |
| 1:45.3 | editor Rachel Kuniev. Rachel why don't you start for us? The first question |
| 1:51.0 | comes from listener Nick Drew who asks what impact will |
| 1:54.6 | Jeremy Corbyn's proposed new group of independent MPs have in Parliament can they |
| 1:59.4 | do more than noisily troll the government could they be a force for policy change I do like this idea |
| 2:04.7 | of trolling the government as a as a concept I think I'm gonna borrow that for an analysis piece |
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