Revisited: From Blair to Starmer: Labour’s path to power, part 1
Today in Focus
The Guardian
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🗓️ 25 December 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:02.0 | Hi, this is Norshein. |
| 0:04.0 | Hi, this is Norshein. |
| 0:10.0 | Today in focus is on a break, but we are running some of our favorite episodes from this year. |
| 0:17.0 | From Blair to Starma, Labor's Path to Power, Part 1, originally came out in October. |
| 0:23.8 | The Guardian's political correspondent, Kiran Stacy, hears from strategists and advisors who are |
| 0:28.8 | around Tony Blair in 1996. |
| 0:32.2 | The year before the general election that saw the defeat of the Tory Party |
| 0:36.6 | after more than a decade in power. Once upon a time, Kia Stama was a very different kind of labour politician. He was an ally of Jeremy Corbyn and unapologetically a man of the left. |
| 0:57.7 | But over the last year he seems to have moved closer and closer to a very different former labor leader. |
| 1:04.0 | Today after four defeats, just as in 1997, |
| 1:07.2 | we have new leadership and a renewed sense of purpose and mission. |
| 1:11.8 | It's not just that Tony Blair has started to appear on Labour Party videos again. |
| 1:15.8 | Kia Starma has shown strength, determination and intelligence in setting labour back on a winning path. |
| 1:23.0 | Or that Starma is speaking at conferences organized by the Tony Blair Institute. |
| 1:27.0 | Thank you so much for the speech. |
| 1:30.0 | Before we get on to the substance, how are you enjoying Prime Minister's questions? |
| 1:36.0 | I'm a bit out of practice. |
| 1:40.0 | They're even starting to sound the same. |
| 1:47.0 | Ask me my three main priorities for government and I tell you education education and education. |
| 1:57.0 | We need three things. Growth, growth, growth. |
| 2:06.6 | The Labour government today is not the political arm of anyone other than the British people. |
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