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Politics Unpacked

Starmer Defies Ceasefire Calls

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

Politics, News & Politics, News

4.11.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Keir Starmer has been explaining why he has rejected calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, and claims the Labour Party is united. Will his speech settle tensions within the ranks? Matt speaks to Times Radio senior political correspondent Patrick Maguire and a councillor who calls Starmer's speech 'tone deaf'.


Plus: We introduce the first episode of How To Win An Election, as electoral masterminds Peter Mandelson, Polly Mackenzie and Daniel Finkelstein join Matt to discuss when Rishi Sunak will call the next General Election.


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Moment for Keir Starmer as he seeks to sort of push the reset button on his relationship with

1:27.9

big parts of his party, a big speech setting out his position on Israel and Hamas and why he won't

1:34.6

call for a ceasefire. Patrick McGuire with analysis on that. We've also got a former Labour

1:40.0

counsellor who quit over some former colleagues, made by Keir Starmer. I'll ask him if he'll return to the

1:45.6

fault. That's coming up just about it. But first we've been bang on about it for some time now.

1:50.0

We've finally launched our brand new feature, our new podcast. It's called How to Win an

1:55.8

Election. If you're used to getting having Danny Finkelstein on your podcast on a Tuesday,

2:01.0

well now you can get him on a standalone podcast, Daniel Finkelstein, times columnist,

2:05.5

former advisor, John Major, William Hague and so on. He is joined by Polymer Kenzie, former

2:10.9

Lib Dem advisor, Peter Madison, former architect of New Labour for our brand new podcast. It's

2:16.3

called How to an Election. You can catch it every Tuesday, live on Times Radio just after 10

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or subscribe right now to the podcast. So I thought as it's week one, we'd give you a little

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