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Today in Focus

McSweeney and Gray: the powers behind Keir Starmer

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

After Labour’s 2019 election defeat, Keir Starmer vowed to transform the party. Who are the advisers who have helped him shape it? Jessica Elgot reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:02.0

Today, one of them has delivered labour to the very edge of government.

0:10.0

The other would help decide what has delivered labour to the very edge of government.

0:13.0

The other would help decide what that labour government would do.

0:17.0

Meet the two power brokers behind Kie stama. you've stopped in your tracks by the most delicious looking bake treat you've ever seen

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0:57.0

My name is Morgan Max Winnie, an organization called Leaveer Together.

1:06.2

I'd like to welcome you all here this evening.

1:09.4

The voice you're hearing belongs to one of the most influential people in the UK at the moment.

1:14.3

He's Morgan McSweeny, the Labour Party's campaign guru, and this is one of the few

1:20.4

recordings we found of him talking publicly.

1:23.0

It's a network of people from across the party, from different traditions.

1:28.0

It's from an event called How Can We Build a 21st Century Labour Party?

1:32.0

From July 2019, a few months before Labour's

1:35.7

shattering loss to Boris Johnson's Conservatives.

1:38.6

I'm challenges speaking to the Party and the country and how we overcome them.

1:43.0

And what's really striking about it is the barely veiled tension in the expressions

1:50.0

and the body language of the representatives on stage from Labour's different factions.

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