One Year of Labour: What Do Voters Think?

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On recent episodes we’ve looked back at Labour’s first 12 year in government, and we’ve looked ahead at what Labour could do next. Today, Newscast finds out how voters feel things are going.

Laura and Paddy chat with Luke Tryl, director of More in Common, political research group, to find out what new polling suggests about what the public really think of Keir Starmer.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.8	Paddy, what's your favourite in a trilogy, the first, the second or the third?
0:08.7	Well, I love it when, say, for instance, if you think of the films that are very good,
0:14.1	like Terminator 2.
0:15.6	Yes.
0:16.3	I like it when there's something very good that comes second.
0:20.1	Okay.
0:20.6	This is a sort of Henry
0:21.3	Zephman subject. Is it? But sometimes with a trilogy you think that he shouldn't have been
0:27.7	Trill, should have been a duo. Well I think save the best till last. That's what I think. Yes. So we did the
0:32.8	past with Adam, Chris and Henry. Yes. We did the future with you and I.
0:39.5	Yes.
0:40.7	And today we're doing the most important thing of all.
0:43.1	The public, da, da, da.
0:45.0	So in all the endless coverage of Labour's anniversary of its time in power,
0:49.9	there has been enormous amounts of chatter and commentary
0:52.9	and news being committed all over the place.
0:55.6	But today we are going to hear from the people that matter the most, the public.
1:00.4	We're finding out what the voters really think.
1:02.7	Newscast.
1:03.4	Newscast from the BBC.
1:05.1	He has just compared me to the fat controller.
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