The King’s (Labour) Speech
Planet Normal
Theodora Louloudis
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Joining Liam in the cockpit this week for a very special extended interview is Professor Matthew Goodwin.
As the rocket blasts into a new political era with a Labour government at the helm, Matthew explains why he thinks Keir Starmer’s party could be unpopular very quickly, and debates with Liam how the Conservative Party could pull back a vital share of voters that they lost to Reform UK.
Our popular analyst also gives his take on the political antics happening across the pond, and why he thinks Donald Trump is in an especially strong position, more so after the assassination attempt on him.
There’s also time for co-pilot Halligan to have a brief burrow in the Planet Normal mailbag.
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| 0:00.0 | A lot of the Tory vote went to reform or Tory supporters just stayed at home because they were so |
| 0:09.7 | cheesed off. If they go for a new leader that's designed to take on Lib Dems and do the whole |
| 0:16.8 | camera and hug a hoodie scenario, then I don't think they're going to find many votes there |
| 0:21.4 | over that really really contested |
| 0:23.2 | center left ground. I think Labour will become a very unpopular government very |
| 0:29.3 | quickly and to be frank I think Trump looks like somebody who genuinely cares about America. |
| 0:36.0 | One. |
| 0:37.0 | We have left off. |
| 0:42.0 | Welcome once again to Plan. We have left off. |
| 0:48.4 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal the Telegraph Podcast with me, Liam Halligan and ordinarily Allison Pearson, but the co-pilots are way on special writing duties so I'm delighted to be joined by the political |
| 0:56.1 | analyst and longtime planet normal regular Matt Goodwin. |
| 0:59.5 | It's great to be with you Lee and thanks for having me. |
| 1:02.4 | Great to have you with us Matt. It's |
| 1:04.1 | great to have you with us, Matt. It's Labour's first King's speech as the monarch outlines |
| 1:06.7 | the new government's legislative agenda for the coming parliament. |
| 1:10.0 | There are more and 30 bills in the offing, with measures ranging from workers' rights education |
| 1:14.8 | cyber security to artificial intelligence. House buildings also a big theme, with controversial plans |
| 1:21.8 | to build on more greenbelt land as well as additional measures designed to improve border security and energy independence. |
| 1:29.0 | In the meantime, our political and media class to say nothing of the country as a whole is still absorbing |
| 1:35.1 | the enormity of Labour's 170 seat House of Commons majority, albeit a majority |
| 1:40.4 | secured with just 34% of the popular vote, far less than the 43% Boris Johnson |
| 1:47.3 | achieved in 2019 and less even than the share of the popular votes secured by Jeremy Corbyn when Labour led by the controversial |
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