Starmer, strikes and Shapps
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Keir Starmer says you can’t legislate your way out of a dispute with new laws against strikes.
But today on the News Agents we hear from the cabinet minister in charge of industrial relations.
Grant Shapps says it’s all about ensuring “minimum safety [and service] levels”. What does that even mean? And how does that work when we haven’t got enough people on the frontline anyway?
We discuss.
Socials: Georgia Foxwell
Video: Will Gibson-Smith
Planning: Alex Barnett
Production: Gabriel Radus
Deputy Editor: Tom Hughes
Executive Producer: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:18.9 | Of all the gin joints and all the towns and all the world, she walks into mine. |
| 0:26.4 | It wasn't Casablanca. |
| 0:28.3 | It was Stratford in East London. |
| 0:30.5 | And sadly, it wasn't a gin joint. |
| 0:32.5 | It was a robotic arm factory. |
| 0:35.4 | And it wasn't a romantic meeting of minds, but it was two blokes |
| 0:40.7 | who each lead their parties, who'd miraculously ended up in exactly the same venue within 24 |
| 0:48.6 | hours of each other to make their New Year's speech. Yes, Rishi Sunak and Sir Kirstama alighted on the exact same venue, |
| 0:59.6 | just a stone's throw from the Olympic Park. Credit where credits due, Kirstama made very clear, |
| 1:05.9 | he booked it first. Now, this is a bit of London that some of you getting pretty familiar with |
| 1:10.6 | in the last few days, |
| 1:12.3 | so I've decided that I won't tell the Prime Minister where I'm going on holiday this year, just in case I find him there as well. |
| 1:20.8 | Welcome to the news agents. The Newsagents. It's John. |
| 1:29.2 | It's Emily. |
| 1:30.0 | And it's Lewis. |
| 1:31.0 | And we are at Newsagents HQ, not in Casablanca, not in Stratford. |
| 1:37.0 | More's the pity. |
| 1:37.8 | More is it, frankly. |
| 1:39.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:39.3 | It was today Kirstama's turn to set out a speech, to set out his vision, kind of rather |
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