Keir Starmer Makes His Pitch
Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards
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4.7 • 909 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
I analyse Keir Starmer's latest pitch as if it were a classic literary text - which it is not - but there clues in it that are interesting. Speeches are always more revealing than they seem.
Plus, brilliant questions from Portugal, Holland, France and of course the UK.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics with me, Steve Richards. This is the weekly podcast. Thank you all so much for tuning in, wherever you are in the UK and around the world. And I can tell you, we have got some fantastic questions coming up from the UK |
| 0:39.3 | and from various parts of Europe, lots of different bits of Europe today, and really kind of |
| 0:46.0 | shedding light on all kinds of issues. So that's to come. If it's okay with you, I'm going to reflect a bit on Kirstama and his opening pitch in 2022. |
| 0:59.9 | Opening pitches in a year are very interesting for all kinds of reasons, which I'll explain in a moment. |
| 1:08.1 | So yeah, so we've got that. We've got some fantastic questions. Before all of that, |
| 1:14.0 | just a reminder, January the 24th, rock and roll politics, the new year special, is live at King's Place, |
| 1:22.7 | starting at 7 o'clock. It's streaming live as well from those of you kind of watching on the moon and can't quite |
| 1:29.1 | get down to King's Place. And I thought what I'm going to do, I mean, it will partly depend on |
| 1:35.0 | what's happening at the time. And things move so fast on one level in politics at the moment. |
| 1:42.1 | Who knows what will be happening by Monday, January the 24th. |
| 1:46.8 | But what I thought I'm going to try and do as part of our evening together, and it would be |
| 1:53.1 | partly determined by you, and of course we'll be having the usual predictions in the hall and |
| 1:57.7 | elsewhere, is, well, usual as in it would be a different one, and usual as |
| 2:03.5 | it will probably prove to be totally wrong. But yeah, the degree to which the pressures piling on |
| 2:13.5 | Johnson as Prime Minister are unusual in their range and intensity. |
| 2:21.3 | How do they compare? |
| 2:23.0 | I mean, when you sort of start thinking about them, various investigations into his conduct, |
| 2:28.6 | the divisions within the Tory parliamentary party and beyond, candidates for the leadership circling. |
| 2:38.3 | How does that compare with the fall of Thatcher, the ingredients that brought about the fall of Thatcher |
| 2:44.6 | in that sort of extraordinary Shakespearean autumn of 1990? How do they compare with the pressures on John Major? |
| 2:55.8 | Or indeed Tony Blair post-Irake, or indeed Gordon Brown during his short premiership, where he was |
| 3:03.6 | constantly faced with internal insurrections, which have been largely forgotten about |
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