Is Labour's lead slipping away?
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In the past 7 days Sir Keir Starmer has had to face down a leak over his big policy U-turn, a policy U-turn and the suspension of two Labour candidates for anti-Israel and/or anti-Semitic comments. A third person in the room at the time is, we understand, being 'spoken to'.
It's probably not been a great week for party morale - but has any of it hit Labour's poll lead?
And will any of it translate into actual voting in the by election results tomorrow? We talk to pollster Luke Tryl from More in Common.
Later - rats, open sewage, cockroaches and drugs. Chief Inspectorate of Prisons Charlie Taylor talks us through the worst report he's ever penned on our prison system as we ask whether the justice system or the accommodation limitations dictate who is put behind bars.
A Prison Service Spokesperson said:
“The findings of this inspection are unacceptable which is why we’re taking urgent action to address the concerns raised. This includes deploying extra frontline officers to reduce violence and improve safety, undertaking refurbishments to improve living conditions, and ensuring offenders get greater access to the education and skills they need to turn their backs on crime.”
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.6 | Fucking Israel again, you know. |
| 0:14.7 | And I'm sure that all these people think of them when they go home. |
| 0:18.1 | But you will not get Israel over the line unless we go at them hard |
| 0:22.7 | but why is there British people in the idea yeah well this has been raised and I'm going to take |
| 0:28.8 | this up because we have a simple rule to get a right there as well you do unless unless unless |
| 0:34.6 | unless there is a military alliance between us and that particular country, |
| 0:38.9 | NATO or whatever, then, or an individual one, you should not be fighting. |
| 0:46.6 | No British person should be fighting for any other country. |
| 0:49.9 | At all, full stop. |
| 0:51.3 | It's against the law and you should be locked up. |
| 0:53.1 | That was a leaked audio recording of Graham Jones, who is, or who was, |
| 0:58.7 | the Labour Party's candidate for Heimburn. |
| 1:01.4 | And he was suspended last night after that recording made its way to the Labour leader. |
| 1:09.9 | And he is heard there referring to fucking Israel |
| 1:14.5 | and saying that British people who sign up to fight with the IDF, the Israeli army, |
| 1:21.0 | should be locked up. |
| 1:23.5 | This is turning into the week from hell for Kea Starma and for the Labour leadership. |
| 1:28.1 | The worst week politically they've endured for a very long time. |
| 1:33.5 | The front pages are full of talks of crisis, of a spiral, of a leader who has allowed a situation to run out of control. |
| 1:43.6 | And there are some polls which could be quite |
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