Reeves goes for growth in the Treasury, Starmer takes to the world stage
Radical with Amol Rajan
BBC
4.5 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Amol and Nick are back for Labour’s first week in government to look at Rachel Reeves’ plan for growth and how Keir Starmer can position himself on the world stage as he jets off for a Nato summit in the US.
Plus, Nick is in Normandy to provide his assessment of what the final round of the French elections might mean for Emmanuel Macron’s political future.
And they answer listener questions – should 16-year-olds get the vote and can politicians ever hold back the tides of change?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Well, there's a flurry of announcements today. |
| 0:07.0 | Wes Streeting is trying to end the junior Doctor Strike. |
| 0:09.7 | Bridget Philipson, the Education Secretary, is recruiting more teachers. |
| 0:14.0 | Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, is bringing in a new border commander. |
| 0:17.5 | Shabana Mamu, we could go on and on here, couldn't we? |
| 0:19.5 | David Lammy, the Foreign Secretary, |
| 0:21.3 | is resetting relations |
| 0:22.6 | with Europe. |
| 0:23.3 | It's almost, |
| 0:24.1 | Nick, as if there's a new |
| 0:25.5 | government in town, |
| 0:26.7 | and they've got a lot |
| 0:27.7 | to get on with. |
| 0:28.5 | Yeah, I'm still getting used |
| 0:30.2 | to saying those names |
| 0:31.4 | with their job titles |
| 0:32.7 | because we've got so used |
| 0:33.9 | to other people |
| 0:35.6 | being in those jobs. And I think for a lot of people listening in, they'll go, |
| 0:39.3 | really, if Hep Cooper's the Home Secretary, Shabon and Mahmood is the Justice Secretary, |
| 0:43.1 | but they have decided, haven't they, on coming to power to show that those six first steps |
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