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Politics Weekly UK – Labour wins a landslide: Is this a new dawn?

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Labour has won a landslide victory with Keir Starmer saying “change begins now”. Is this a new era for the country? The Guardian’s John Harris is joined by political editor Pippa Crerar and political correspondent Kiran Stacey. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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We're going down like 9 pins and that is the conclusion of this evening.

0:56.5

I will surely be seeing His Majesty the King to offer my resignation as Prime Minister.

1:01.0

What an amazing reception. We did it!

1:04.0

I'm fed up for performance art politics.

1:09.0

I've watched colleagues in the Conservative Party strike poses, right inflammatory obed.

1:15.0

And there is only one thing that I can say,

1:18.0

sorry, I'm sorry, that my party didn't listen to you.

1:25.0

Jeremy Bernard Corbin, commonly known as Jeremy Corbin,

1:29.4

independent, 24,000. Well, I'm boring.

1:36.4

Boring.

1:39.6

Well, this is good preparation for the House of Commons I suppose, doesn't it?

1:43.0

I'm John Harris. I'm Pippa Carrira and I'm Kiran Stacey.

1:47.0

And on the day after the general election and at the start of, and I'll say this slowly, a brand new Labour government, you are listening

1:55.6

to Politics Week, the UK, for the Guardian.

1:58.6

Right, here's a question in my script here it says how does everyone feel?

2:07.0

Extremely tired to the point that everything is a bit psychedelic is my immediate answer but

2:11.6

there is a political aspect to this I suppose how do you both feel tell me well I think I probably have to say also that I'm absolutely

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