Manifesto deep-dive: Is Labour’s at all progressive?
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🗓️ 16 June 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Following a week of political manifestoes dropping from UK parties - Nish & Coco take a deep-dive investigation to see how they hold up against one another. With a focus on manifestoes that have left-wing approaches - they discuss what policies are the most realistic and which hold up the best under scrutiny. Joined by political journalist Zoe Grünewald, Nish & Coco look closely at welfare policies, the NHS, taxes and social care.
Special guests Rebekah Pierre (author and social worker) and Helen Barnard (of the Trussell Trust) send the hosts their thoughts on which policies have the most potential for hope.
And there’s a return of WTF moments featuring an iconic UK hit song and Starmer’s comeback to a surprise protest.
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Zoe Grünewald, political journalist
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| 0:00.0 | For months, Labour have been hammered with questions about what they stand for. |
| 0:06.5 | Well, now we know. |
| 0:08.1 | It's change. It's time for change. Change the change into the change that you want to change. |
| 0:12.9 | Change. |
| 0:13.8 | I'm Nish Kamar, or my friends call me Change. |
| 0:16.9 | You're David Bowie? |
| 0:17.9 | Change! |
| 0:19.2 | And I'm Coco Card and this is Pod Save the UK. |
| 0:22.0 | To chew through a big week of manifestos, |
| 0:24.0 | we're joined by political journalist Zoe Grunewild. |
| 0:26.0 | Hi Zoe. |
| 0:27.0 | Hello. |
| 0:28.0 | Yeah. Later, we'll also be hearing from some very special guests, |
| 0:31.0 | but first, let's hear Kie Kiestarma at the launch of the |
| 0:34.2 | Labour manifesto. We can guarantee for every young person a job placement or |
| 0:39.6 | apprenticeship when they're out of work. We can invest in their mental health, their |
| 0:44.8 | physical health, their dental health. We can reform the curriculum to prepare |
| 0:49.7 | them for their world. We can create new youth hubs to give them something to do in their |
| 0:55.6 | community. Raise their wages if they're at work. Give them the power of the vote. |
| 1:03.0 | Tapple injustice. Give them the power of the vote. Tackle injustice with a new Race Equality Act. |
| 1:08.0 | And with our mission on clean power, we can lead the way on climate. |
| 1:12.0 | Finally show our responsibility to their future, a fairer, |
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