Labour's growth fixation
Political Fix
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🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Sir Keir Starmer took the chance to extend the hand of friendship to Britain’s neighbours when he hosted the European Political Community summit in Blenheim Palace on Thursday. The FT’s Lucy Fisher is joined by political editor George Parker, columnist Stephen Bush and public policy editor Peter Foster to discuss how far Britain wants to deepen relations with the EU again. Plus, the team examine the King’s Speech — analysing what Starmer has prioritised and what he’s shelved for now.
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| 0:59.3 | Stephen, what did you make all that chuminess at the King's speech between Sunak and Starma, Rayna and Dowden? |
| 1:02.3 | I feel like the chuminess between Rayna and Dowden was probably more forced. |
| 1:06.1 | I feel like Kia and Ritchie have this shared curse and they are two people who actually do like |
| 1:11.9 | football who it's widely believed by people who haven't met them don't right because they do both come across like they've just googled what is soccer before talking about it so I'm sure they'll have had a great time having a conversation |
| 1:23.5 | about the England football team with basically the only other person in the world who |
| 1:28.0 | accepts that they are in fact interested in having that conversation. |
| 1:32.0 | I don't know. George I sometimes wonder if it all looks a bit cozy when you see |
| 1:35.9 | politicians from different sides of the aisle kind of laughing and having all this bonamy. |
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