Is Rishi Sunak's anti-strike law a trap for Labour?
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
After the Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition met across the despatch box for the first time in 2023, Anoosh Chakelian is joined by the New Statesman's Political Editor Andrew Marr and Freddie Hayward to analyse whether Rishi Sunak can start turning his polling figures around.
They discuss Sunak’s answers about his use of private healthcare and Labour’s potentially costly plans for the NHS.
Then in You Ask Us, they answer a listener’s question on how Labour is responding to the government’s anti-strike legislation.
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CORRECTION:
On an earlier version of this episode of the New Statesman podcast, during a discussion about anti-strike legislation, there was a suggestion that individual workers may be arrested – this was incorrect. As we made clear in our intro to the topic, the law would be enforceable in two ways: allowing employers to fire workers who strike, and to sue unions that don’t ensure a minimum level of service. We have removed this from the podcast.
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| 0:26.0 | Hi, I'm Enouche. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm Andrew, and I'm Freddie. |
| 0:31.0 | And on today's episode of the New Statesman podcast, |
| 0:34.0 | we reflect on the first week back in Parliament, |
| 0:36.0 | PMQs, and how Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer's 2023 is going so far. |
| 0:41.0 | So Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer met across the dispatch box |
| 0:47.0 | for the first time this year, yesterday. |
| 0:49.0 | It was on a day when paramedics and 999 call handlers were striking, |
| 0:52.0 | so that gives you a bit of a sense of what was going on |
| 0:55.0 | in the real-world outside Westminster. |
| 0:57.0 | So this takes really high in this conversation. |
| 0:59.0 | What do you think the dividing lines were that were |
| 1:02.0 | the first time in the New Statesman podcast? |
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