The Tories lose their minds (again) - can Starmer hold against the far right?
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Pod Save the UK
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🗓️ 10 October 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The Tory party have once again chosen violence against themselves, as Keir Starmer’s Labour party are languishing in the polls after 90-something days of a lack of action.
Nish and Coco burst the bubble on the news that Starmer’s Chief of Staff has been replaced by his election guru, joined by political journalist Ian Dunt to find out just how big a deal this backroom reshuffle is for the machinations of government.
Ian also unravels the ideology of centrism - explaining why it was a huge part of the Labour Party’s success at the general election and why it might not be enough to keep the electorate happy without some actual policy to back it up.
Later, Labour MP Nadia Whittome calls in from Portcullis House to talk about why she’s still hopeful for what the new government can deliver, before the biggest WTF moment since Rishi Sunak walked out in the rain - the Tory Party eliminating centrist candidate James Cleverly from the leadership.
Guests:
Ian Dunt
Nadia Whittome MP
Audio Credits:
LBC
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Pod Save the UK and I'm Coco Khan. |
| 0:05.4 | And I'm Nishkumar. |
| 0:06.4 | On today's show, we're nearly at 100 days of the new government. |
| 0:09.6 | What exactly have we got to show for it? |
| 0:12.0 | It feels somewhat unclear. We'll be |
| 0:15.0 | getting into that with political journalist Ian Duntt. And later we promised there |
| 0:19.2 | will be some hope as Labor MP Nardia Whitten joins us to tell us about what she's working on, the things |
| 0:25.2 | we can look forward to now that Parliament is finally back in action. |
| 0:29.2 | Future Kota is just popping in here to say, don't miss our discussion of the latest mad bad and |
| 0:35.5 | dangerous antics from the Conservative Party lead fit race we'll be discussing the |
| 0:40.4 | shop exit of James cleverly from the race later in the show. |
| 0:45.0 | Mr Speaker, tomorrow the government will publish their anticipated changes to employment law. |
| 0:54.4 | Given the weekends events, |
| 0:58.9 | given the weekends events, when did the Prime Minister first |
| 1:01.9 | become a convert to fire and rehire? |
| 1:05.0 | That's Rishi Sunak, former Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition, shooting at an open goal. He shanked it. You sort of forget how |
| 1:15.4 | thunderingly uncharismatic he is. Like that that was an open goal that he |
| 1:19.7 | somehow managed to hit the bar with and the ball rebounded and hit him directly in the genitals. |
| 1:25.1 | Like I've got honestly I am amazed... |
| 1:28.7 | Yeah he is just he he is yes he's very bad at the time of recording we |
| 1:37.1 | 97 days into the new government and things haven't exactly been going down too |
| 1:41.0 | well with the public. |
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