Keir Starmer’s never ending chaos | Will and Anoosh’s weekly round up
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Keir Starmer’s never ending cycle of political chaos, Reform’s suspended local councillors and Anoosh’s heckle of Boris Johnson.
Will Dunn and Anoosh Chakelian round up the stories of the week.
Read: https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2026/05/will-progressives-ever-forgive-labour
https://www.newstatesman.com/business/economics/2026/05/the-bond-markets-will-not-save-keir-starmer
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| 0:00.0 | The New Statesman. |
| 0:05.4 | I'm Anoushe Kellean and you're listening to The New Statesman podcast and I'm here, as always, with my colleague Will Dunn for a weekly roundup. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello. |
| 0:13.5 | Hello. |
| 0:14.4 | Our first category is actually the headline of this week's amazing issue of the magazine. |
| 0:20.5 | It's the eternal category, isn't it? |
| 0:22.2 | It is. |
| 0:22.9 | Neverending chaos. |
| 0:24.1 | For those who are watching, you might be able to see on the camera a picture of West |
| 0:29.4 | Street in Kirstama, Andy Byrne, Edmilla, Edmilla, and Angela Raina all trying to fight |
| 0:33.6 | it out. |
| 0:34.7 | But yeah, never-ending chaos could just be a standard template and we wouldn't have |
| 0:39.2 | to design covers anymore. Next up, never-ending chaos. The chaos continues. I think Alvare, our political |
| 0:47.2 | editors column is particularly good, not least because she was writing in difficult circumstances, |
| 0:52.2 | having to file it on Tuesday evening, Tuesday afternoon, as everything was unfolding. |
| 0:57.5 | And I think it's held up pretty well. |
| 0:59.2 | Yeah, yeah, it really has. Yeah, it's a fantastic piece. |
| 1:02.0 | And, yeah, this is the difficulty with writing a magazine that you file on a Tuesday, which most people then read the following weekend. |
| 1:09.6 | In the bar. |
| 1:10.2 | Especially at a time like this. |
| 1:11.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.5 | I noticed a set of notes in the studio earlier that one of them, there was a note |
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