Starmer's ‘ming vase’ strategy smashed by policy pirouettes

Planet Normal

Louisa Wells

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🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

As Labour performs another head spinning u turn, your co-pilots are here to cut through the madness, so you don’t have to.

Allison thinks this government has been a series of ‘car crashes’ culminating in another major humiliating U-turn on the flagship Welfare Bill. The rebellion of his own MPs is making him a ‘dead man walking’.

Meanwhile Liam focuses on the impact of the concessions Starmer has had to make, and how this will affect Rachel Reeves’ ability to balance the books.

Strapping in this week is columnist Dan Hodges to give his take on where this Labour Party didn’t learn anything from the Blairite years.

Read Allison: ‘We may have to defund the BBC to get our country back’ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/01/glastonbury-horror-show-tim-davie-bbc-bob-vylan-kneecap/ |

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0:00.0	The Telegraph.
0:08.8	This episode of Planet Normal is sponsored by avid reader press.
0:13.5	Legendary investor Ray Dallio's new book, How Countries Go Broke, The Big Cycle, explains the mechanics behind big debt crises. Larry Summers says
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0:28.4	it provides a solution to what is the biggest and most certain threat to our prosperity.
0:33.6	Read it to understand the greatest economic issue of our time. Available now, wherever books are sold.
0:43.6	Five.
0:44.8	Just along from Rachel crying, we had Yvette Cooper, Home Secretary,
0:49.5	looking like she'd sat on a wasp.
0:51.7	No sign of Liz Kendall.
0:54.8	Four.
0:55.9	We're obviously on planet normal, but this is not normal.
0:59.2	You know, it is not normal for a Prime Minister,
1:02.5	facing open revolt from his party.
1:06.2	Three.
1:07.3	I can't think of any decision our Prime Minister has made, which has been for the benefit of the British people.
1:16.2	I don't see anyone on the front bench who passes the sort of sniff test as a grown-up.
1:23.4	One.
1:27.2	We have left off. Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson.
1:34.6	Hello.
1:35.5	And me, Liam Halligan.
1:38.0	A year into this Labour government, Keir Stammer's party seems on the verge of breakdown.
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