Let the election battle begin: can Labour actually win?
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
"The battle for the General Election is getting started" - that was the message from Labour's Deputy Leader today.
Angela Rayner made also a promise to change anti-strike laws within the first 100 days of a Labour government, in her speech to the TUC.
So on the day that Labour gets serious about the next election, Emily hears from Labour's Peter Kyle - the new Shadow Minister for Science, Innovation and Technology.
He's also running their campaign in the Mid Bedfordshire by-election and claims the Lib Dems there have launched "personal attacks" on the Labour candidate there.
The Lib Dems say no personal attacks have been made. A source said:
"People in Mid Bedfordshire are disappointed that Labour have chosen a London councillor as a candidate to represent their rural towns and villages. After Nadine Dorries, people want a local MP, not someone who has been parachuted in."
And could there be a spy for China in Parliament? If so, how did they get there and what damage could be done? Christopher Steele, former head of the Russia desk at MI6 joins Emily in the studio.
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Senior Producer: Gabriel Radus
Producer: Laura FitzPatrick
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.9 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | The battle for the general election is getting started and it's not going to be easy. |
| 0:20.1 | This country cannot survive another five years of Tory rule. |
| 0:26.7 | Ask yourself, what will be left? |
| 0:30.6 | That was Angela Rainer, Labour's deputy leader addressing the Trade Union Congress this morning, |
| 0:35.4 | laying out what Labour is now calling a new deal for workers. |
| 0:39.3 | And she's promising a game changer for employers as well as their workers |
| 0:43.9 | and talking about strengthening the power of the unions. |
| 0:47.9 | She's laying out, as you heard, the terms for an election battle now very much on its way. |
| 0:54.0 | So today, we're going to be asking if it's enough to pull those schemes. for an election battle now very much on its way. |
| 0:56.8 | So today, we're going to be asking if it's enough to pull those skeptical about labour in from the cold |
| 1:00.6 | or whether it risks turning off Middle England. |
| 1:04.6 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:09.5 | The newsagents. |
| 1:11.0 | It's Emily. There is no John. There is no Lewis. The boys have gone off to start their own provisional wing of the news agents. |
| 1:17.5 | But on today's episode, we're going to be hearing election strategy from a key labour frontbencher after a reshuffle that many thought was the revival of the Blairite centrist's. |
| 1:29.0 | A little later, we'll be talking about spies in Westminster with a man who knows intelligence |
| 1:34.0 | inside out. Christopher Steele, yes, he of the Donald Trump P.P. tape dossier. Is he surprised |
| 1:40.8 | by the revelations of what appears to have been going on in Parliament? |
| 1:45.5 | But first to that New Deal, the Rainer New Deal. |
| 1:49.8 | And to be fair, it is really far-reaching in terms of what it's suggesting of the new relationship |
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