Keir On Present Dangers
The New Statesman | UK politics and culture
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🗓️ 12 January 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On Monday, Keir Starmer made his first big speech of the year, which was widely reported as an excoriating attack on the Prime Minister's flawed response to the Covid crisis. Beyond his comments on the pandemic, though, Starmer was also making a streetwise move to set his party up for strong case in future elections. In this episode of the New Statesman podcast, Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea discuss what Keir Starmer was actually trying to say. Then, in You Ask Us, they take your questions on whether lockdown restrictions need tightening - are the British public really to blame for rising cases, as the Government claims?
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Topics discussed in this episode
Sir Keir Starmer speech
Labour party
Coronavirus / Covid 19
Covid vaccine
Furlough
Lockdown
Family
Council tax
Benefits
Business
UK lockdown restrictions
Hospitals
People mentioned in this episode
Sir Keir Starmer
Boris Johnson
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| 1:01.0 | podcast we discuss Kiea Starama's speech, and you ask us, should the restrictions in lockdown be tighter. |
| 1:10.0 | So I'm back after a fun action filled break where I was mainly sitting in the kitchen looking at recipes and occasionally motivating myself to cook them. |
| 1:22.0 | But yeah, it's good to be back after what I know was a massively |
| 1:24.8 | busy news week and it's not letting up. So we're just recording after Kiez Dama has made a speech |
| 1:30.9 | about, well, about many things. |
| 1:33.0 | Alva you've been following it. |
| 1:35.0 | It's partly about what restrictions he thinks needs to be changed or |
| 1:38.0 | toughened up during the current lockdown, |
| 1:40.0 | but it's also sort of laying out of his principles and priorities as well isn't it? |
| 1:44.0 | I'm glad that you similarly stumbled on trying to sum up in one phrase what it was about because |
| 1:50.0 | I'm about to finish writing my piece on it and that is the challenge. |
| 1:55.0 | Not to say that it wasn't clear, but basically this is the first of a series of much trailed speeches from Kirstermer that he is planning on making in the new year to kind of bring his leadership into the next phase. |
| 2:11.6 | So if last year was just about introducing himself drawing a line under |
| 2:15.8 | Jeremy Corbyn's leadership trying to say we're under new and competent leadership then |
| 2:21.6 | this new phase is about putting flesh on the bones of that message. |
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