Is Labour shifting on Brexit?
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
It's been said for years that Labour have been too scared to touch the political lightning rod of Brexit, for fear of losing yet another general election.
But, what if that dial is shifting now? What if Keir Starmer's party feel so comfortable in their lead in the polls that the question of Brexit is reopened? He's been in Belfast, today, outlining measures that would soften the terms of the Brexit the UK subjected itself to two years ago. We talk to Labour MP Chris Bryant, and political commentator Steve Richards about whether Starmer is playing his cards right.
And, the epidemic of homelessness gets worse. Lewis visits a food station in Central London to talk to the homeless about a crisis and speaks to the CEO of Shelter Polly Neate about the increase of families without a permanent home.
Research: Megan McElroy
Socials: Georgia Foxwell
Video: Will Gibson-Smith
Planning: Alex Barnett
Production: Gabriel Radus & Ellie Clifford
Editor: Tom Hughes
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Global Player original podcast. |
| 0:30.6 | That was the band 90s. Well, that was the band, the 1975 this week in Brighton, taking their set in an unexpectedly political direction. |
| 0:35.5 | She wouldn't like me saying what she gets up to of an evening, but you may have even detected the tones of Emily Maitliss on backing vocals. |
| 0:38.2 | And it's a funny clip and a bit ridiculous, and it's been all over social media. But you know that line, we need at least an opposition. |
| 0:42.5 | Well, it has been an oft-repeated line of the Kirstama leadership, hasn't it? Especially over Brexit. |
| 0:48.4 | Well, on today's episode of the newsagents, we're going to be taking you through that precise |
| 0:53.4 | question, where the |
| 0:55.0 | Labour Party is on Brexit, an issue which many had thought untouchable for Labour, preserved in |
| 1:01.0 | Aspic. But I'm going to talk you through what is happening behind the scenes. Why increasingly |
| 1:06.3 | that no longer seems to be the case, why the debate is shifting. |
| 1:11.7 | What has changed and is changing, what it means for Stama, Labor and the future of the country. |
| 1:18.4 | On the issue which made his name, what is Keir Stama up to? |
| 1:23.2 | It's Lewis here. Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:28.6 | The Newsagents. The newsagents. |
| 1:31.5 | They say that Kirstama never talks about Brexit. |
| 1:35.4 | Well, he's talking about it now. |
| 1:37.0 | Whatever political cover you need, whatever mechanisms in Westminster you require, |
| 1:44.0 | if it delivers for our national interest and the people of Northern Ireland, we will support you. |
| 1:51.4 | The time for action on the protocol is now. |
| 1:54.8 | The time to stand up to the ERG is now. |
| 1:58.6 | The time to put Northern Ireland above a Brexit purity cult which could never be |
| 2:04.4 | satisfied is now. The Labour leader went to Belfast today to call on the government to put its |
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