Is Rishi Sunak’s authority starting to crumble? With Andrew Marr

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🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Keir Starmer dubbed Rishi Sunak the “blancmange prime minister” – comparing him to a particularly weak and wobbly dessert – after he U-turned on new onshore wind farms and mandatory housing targets this week under pressure from Tory MPs.

Rachel Wearmouth and Freddie Hayward are joined by Andrew Marr, the New Statesman’s political editor, to discuss Sunak’s struggle to control a divided Tory party as the prospect of electoral defeat looms. They also cover Rachel’s exclusive interview with Keir Starmer as he plots Labour’s route back to power and the launch of a major report authored by Gordon Brown that recommends a radical overhaul of the constitution.

Then in You Ask Us, a listener wonders: should we abolish the House of Lords?

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1:09.1	Hi, I'm Rachel. I'm Freddie. I'm Andrew. And I'm Styrs New Statesman podcast. We're discussing
1:14.8	the Labour Party's plans for reform of the House of Lords, and how Rishi Sunak is co-paying
1:19.1	after another two U-turns on policy.
1:26.9	I just want to mention that the start of the podcast, we're recording it, Smith Square,
1:30.7	and there's a little bit of construction work going on in the background. But Andrew,
1:34.4	as she was me, nothing's going to fall down just yet. Nothing's going to fall down just yet.
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