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Politics Weekly UK

Keir Starmer: new deal, new drama? Politics Weekly UK

Politics Weekly UK

The Guardian

News, Politics

4.01.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The Labour leader has managed to stem a potential showdown with trade union leaders this week over wording on a workers’ rights deal. If this is a dress rehearsal for Labour in government, how has Keir Starmer and his party fared? The Guardian’s John Harris is joined by the columnist Polly Toynbee and Marc Stears, a former Labour party speechwriter and UCL Policy Lab director. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/politicspod

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Please drink responsibly. See Drinkaware.co. UK for the facts. facts. some of Kearst Armour's comrades in the trade unions had had enough of his caution and compromise.

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And 24 hours later, it was all sweetness and light.

1:29.2

I never say we're there until I see the words on the page but we are in a meeting where effectively

1:34.0

everybody wanted to move this forward.

1:35.7

Because labour are now close to power maybe no one wants to rock the boat but it also

1:40.3

feels like a good time to talk about what starmorism, if you can call it that, really is.

1:46.3

I grew up in a pebble dash semi.

1:48.8

My dad was a toolmaker and worked in a factory all his life. And my mom was a nurse and a very proud nurse with it.

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Is he a Blairite or a traditionalist? A proud working class leader or a North London lawyer?

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