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#StateThinking: Labour and the "Special Relationship" . @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

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🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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#StateThinking: Labour and the "Special Relationship" . @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/we-know-who-will-win-the-uk-election-but-why-d590effe

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0:00.0

I'm John Bachelor. I welcome my colleague and friend Mary Kistel, Executive Vice President

0:07.6

Stephen Incorporated, former senior advisor to the Secretary of State. We turn now to July 4th, 2024,

0:15.0

celebration in the United States again of our liberty from our

0:20.0

colonial masters once upon a time that would have been King George and

0:26.0

the United Kingdom. Now July 4th is an election day for a general election day

0:31.5

for that very same United Kingdom. Things have changed a deal in two and a half

0:36.4

centuries, but I wanted to draw Mary out in her thinking about this election because we're

0:41.8

told that it's not close.

0:43.2

The polling suggests that Labor, led by Kirste-Starma,

0:47.0

is 20 points ahead at least.

0:49.6

And Mr. Sunak, who is the Prime Minister of the moment, is making a lot of attention to ideas

0:57.9

such as National Service and taxes and what he's going to do about the NHS, what he's going to do about education.

1:05.0

However, labor is so far ahead.

1:07.0

I wanted to address my remarks to labor.

1:11.0

Mary, labor's not been in authority in the Parliament since 2010 is my memory.

1:16.8

It's been a while.

1:18.3

More than a decade means that nobody can remember.

1:21.4

What do you expect from Kirstarmer from labor, knowing that they've done their

1:25.8

best to exit, to exit their anti-Semitic members, especially that Jeremy Corbin and his accolades, but that no one quite knows

1:37.6

that that's trustworthy, given the protests in London these last months, tolerated by both parties in the Parliament?

1:47.0

Well the Tories have run the UK for 14 years and they've done a pretty lousy job. They've strayed away from their

1:54.7

pro-growth small government economic principles. They did not take advantage of

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