Starmer and Rayner – What does she think of him?

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.6 • 825 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In Tom Baldwin's new biography of Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner describes the Labour leader as “the least political person I know in politics”. What does she mean? Is she right about Starmer? And what are the implications? Rock & Roll Politics is live in March: The Ropetackle, Shoreham, Wed Mar 13th: https://ropetacklecentre.co.uk/events/steve-richards-rock-n-roll-politics-2/ Kings Place, London, March 26th: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/words/steve-richards-presents-rock-n-roll-politics-march-2024/ Support the podcast on Patreon for bonus editions, live events and much more: https://www.patreon.com/RockNRollPolitics Buy Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll help fund Rock & Roll Politics by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards.
0:12.4	Thanks so much for tuning in. And as ever, of course, we've got a lot to cram in in our time
0:20.2	together.
0:21.5	If it's okay with you, there goes a text.
0:24.3	It always starts, you know, when I record, the text start kind of piling in from nowhere.
0:29.6	Let me just silence the phone or whatever you do.
0:33.0	Okay, so if it's, well, that's just added to the suspense on what I shall be reflecting on,
0:39.6	I will do a kind of melange of related themes, the end of the Tory era via the by-elections of last week,
0:52.9	and then reflect on a fascinating quote in Tom Baldwin's
0:58.1	new biography of Kier Stama. It's a sort of kind of authorised biography. And there was a fascinating
1:04.7	quote, it's being serialized in the Times. There was a fascinating quote from Angela Rainer,
1:10.1	which I thought I would just read out to you
1:13.1	and then analyse for a bit.
1:16.0	Before we return to your amazing questions on a whole range of themes, and if you want to join in
1:22.3	our never-ending debate, you know, Dylan is on a never-ending tour. We're on a never-ending debate. Do email any
1:30.4	reflections, questions to Steve Rick 14 at iCloud.com. Steve Rick 1-4 at iCloud.com. And just a few notices before then.
1:46.0	Yeah, for those of you who kindly subscribe to Patreon,
1:50.1	the Patreon version of rock and roll politics,
1:53.3	there is a new bonus podcast out there for you.
1:57.4	It's in this series I'm doing under the theme of preparing for power then and now.
2:04.8	And it's looking back at interviews I did when I was a political editor of the new statesman
2:09.6	in the build-up to the 1997 election. The last time Labor appeared to be really on the verge of power.
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