Is Rachel Reeves right that Blair was wrong?
The Two Matts
The New World
4.2 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Rachel Reeves speech on the future of the economy is dense with ideas that will affect all our futures under a Labour government. What did she mean and why does it matter? The Two Matts do the deep dive into one of the most interesting and important speeches from Labour since they lost power. Also - the time Steve Harley gave Matt K the death stare … and George Lucas sent Matt D into a world of journalistic anxiety.
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| 1:00.7 | weekending Friday the 22nd of March. The podcast that says, never meet your heroes. What did we talk |
| 1:06.6 | about, mate? Well, we talked about Rachel Reeves and a very important lecture she gave this week |
| 1:11.4 | about Labor's plans. And I think, I'm glad we did because, you know, in spite of all the |
| 1:16.4 | It's not as boring as it sounds, folks. It really is, it's quite, it's probably going to matter to all of us quite a lot quite soon. |
| 1:23.3 | Yeah, well, I think if you, if it's past your bio, you sort of saw it on the news and you thought, |
| 1:27.7 | oh, I can't be bothered working out what that all means. We've done a bit of the working out for you, |
| 1:31.4 | I think. We've tried to deconstruct it into, you know, political and social reality. And it's fascinating, |
| 1:38.7 | actually. And in the second half, we have a lot more fun. Talking about heroes we have met, those we've liked, those we haven't. |
| 1:45.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:45.5 | There's a sort of a rogues gallery. |
| 1:48.8 | Yeah. |
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