The Labour Party's "unpopularity contest"
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Labour’s unpopularity contest, the joys of figure skating and bonkers advice from RFK Jr's nutrition chatbot.
Anoosh Chakelian and Will Dunn explore the most ludicrous and laughable stories of the week.
Including calls for Britain to set up a “Ministry of Sex”...
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| 0:00.0 | The New Statesman |
| 0:02.0 | I'm Anoush Shaqueline and you're listening to Daily Politics from The New Statesman |
| 0:09.3 | and I'm back here again with my colleague Will done for our weekly roundup. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello, Will. |
| 0:13.5 | Hello. |
| 0:14.2 | So our first category this week is the plot of the week. |
| 0:18.7 | Plot of the week. |
| 0:20.1 | Yes. |
| 0:20.1 | What's your plot of the week, Anish? The plot I the week. Plot of the week. Dastardly doing. |
| 0:21.3 | Yes. |
| 0:21.5 | What's your plot of the week, Anish? |
| 0:23.7 | The plot I have chosen wasn't really a plot at all. |
| 0:27.1 | Oh. |
| 0:27.7 | The plot thickens or thins. |
| 0:30.7 | To be accurate. |
| 0:32.0 | So this was a hoax email supposedly sent by someone from a representative of the mainstream labor |
| 0:39.9 | faction. |
| 0:40.5 | So this is a group that describes itself as the radical wing of the soft left. |
| 0:44.8 | Keep up. |
| 0:46.7 | So the harder end of the soft left. |
| 0:51.1 | Well, no, I think the softer end of the soft left. Oh, okay. Softer end of the soft left oh okay softer end of the soft left okay |
| 0:56.7 | yeah i mean what a name though mainstream i love that yeah mainstream just just claim the |
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