Is Keir Starmer’s reset a threat to Rachel Reeves?

Not Another One

Richards Green Montgomerie Martin

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

4.7 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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The Prime Minister has attempted to boost his team in Number 10, not least by appointing an adviser on economic policy and moving Darren Jones from the Treasury to oversee policy from Number 10. Some interpret the change as an attempt to challenge Reeves, who had total control over economic policy in opposition and the government’s opening months, but how undermining are the changes? Our team asks how they will change the political mood. How many more resets will Starmer make to a team in a state of near constant churn?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Not Another One, the podcast with me, Steve Richards, Miranda Green, Ian Martin and Tim Montgomery, and for the first time, for quite a long time, we are all in the
0:22.6	studio together. I can't quite believe it. Nice to see you all. Yeah, we're reunited and it feels
0:28.4	so good. Steve, did you have a good holiday? Just to explain that in-joke, I've just come
0:35.9	back from Edinburgh. can I be crude?
0:38.2	Work might, we'll get banned,
0:39.3	weren't we?
0:39.7	Yeah.
0:40.5	I worked hard.
0:41.6	I worked very hard.
0:43.4	14 shows, different one every day.
0:45.8	I come back, knackard and everyone said,
0:47.5	I'm not even allowed to say that all.
0:49.6	And everyone said, oh, you should have a good holiday?
0:51.3	As if I've been to Ibiza.
0:53.2	That's to come.
0:55.0	That is to come.
0:56.9	But yeah, direct question then for Steve.
0:59.4	Would you rather have gone for two weeks in Ibiza or had your two weeks show in Edinburgh of rock and roll politics?
1:07.0	Clever question. The two weeks in Edinburgh. Of of course by quite by a huge huge margin um but
1:14.0	you've all been sort of well you were away last week maranda i was away part of last week yeah i've been
1:18.9	working quite a lot of the summer actually which has been interesting because as um as some listeners
1:24.1	will know but not others the newsroom in in August is quite a weird place to be.
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