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This is a global player original podcast. There may be some people here today who say,

where's the surprise? Where's the rabbit out of the hat? To which I say, if you want politics, says pantomime, I hear Clapton is nice, this time of the air.

That was Kirste Stama this morning in Manchester, totally unapologetic, that there were no surprises in the manifesto.

The Labour message has been crafted, it is moving steadily, if not excitingly,

towards the general election on July the 4th.

And everything is a restatement of what they've said before.

So no rabbits and a real desire for change.

But what about the things that really need to change in this country and change fast?

Why does child poverty only get two mentions in the whole manifesto?

Welcome to the newsagents.

The Newsagents. It's John. It's Emily.

And a little bit later on, we're going to be talking to Peter Carl, senior member of the Shadow Cabinet,

and one of the people who is very close to Kirstama and will play a central role in a Labour government if they win the general election.

That's of no doubt.

And we are going to talk to him mainly about that whole issue of child poverty that you mentioned in the introduction there. Yeah. And try and seek answers as to what Labour is choosing to do and frankly choosing not to do in this manifesto launch today.

But let's start with Kirstama and the speech that he made.

And I think for anyone who's been following the campaign quite closely,

playing the bingo card, there were quite a lot of familiar stories there.

I mean, I feel like I've heard about

Dad's a toolmaker, the Alder Hay Hospital, which is doing amazing work with heart surgery,

but also the rotten teeth thing. This is a theme he keeps going back to how many children

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