Labour are U-turning it up
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🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Winter fuel cuts? Two child benefit gap? Rachel Reeves' fiscal rules? Angela Rayner?
The team discuss what will stay and what will have to go for Labour in the coming weeks and months, and where Nigel Farage is lurking to capitalise on Labour and Tory struggles.
Anoosh Chakelian is joined by George Eaton and Rachel Cunliffe.
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| 1:04.2 | Hello, I'm Anous Shekelian and this is Politics from The New Statesman, |
| 1:08.0 | where every Thursday we bring you the latest from Westminster and beyond. |
| 1:11.4 | Today I'm joined by our Associate Political Editor Rachel Cunliff and our senior editor, George Eaton. |
| 1:16.7 | Hello. |
| 1:17.1 | Hello. |
| 1:17.7 | I think this is the first time, the three of us, I know. |
| 1:20.4 | I have done a podcast since you went off on the tentative. |
| 1:23.6 | It is. It is. The Holy Trinity. |
| 1:25.5 | Happy get. |
| 1:26.4 | I'm excited. So you've both been very busy because it has been a bit of a chaotic time for Labour, hasn't it? Which seems to be in tangle of resets and U-turns. Listeners might remember that last week, our political editor, Andrew Marr, when he was talking to us, George, revealed that Kirstama has said privately that lifting the two-child benefit cap is his personal priority. |
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