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🗓️ 4 July 2025
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Our listeners ask: Can we really argue that Keir Starmer has a plan after yet another disaster over the welfare reform bill?
Anoosh Chakelian is joined by Tom McTague and Rachel Cunliffe. This episode was recorded before MP Zarah Sultana announced she is launching a new political party with Jeremy Corbyn.
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0:00.0 | The New Statesman |
0:02.0 | It's Friday. That means it's listener questions time on the New Statesman podcast. I'm Anusha Kellyan and I'm here with Tom McTagg and Rachel Cunlin. This time we've got some great questions sent in by our listeners on Kirstama's plan or lack thereof and whether the exorcism of Jeremy Corbyn's ghost has cost |
0:21.5 | Labour dearly. So the first question is from a YouTube user called Tommy Thompson. You've said |
0:27.6 | on the New Statesman podcast before Labour was elected that Starma would be a great reformer. |
0:33.0 | Do you still think that after the latest U-turns, or now do you think, like I do, that Stama has |
0:38.3 | no plan at all? So it sounded like we were quite enthusiastic about Stama's prospects before the |
0:45.4 | election. A great reformer. I mean, Tom, you've followed him around for your profile. You |
0:50.2 | have more of an idea than most people, whether or not that's truly who he can be. |
0:54.6 | Yeah. So for those who haven't read my profile, it was what three or four weeks ago now, |
1:01.5 | we published it. It started really, it's as a thought that, like, who should I profile |
1:10.4 | to start as editor at the Statesman? |
1:13.9 | Who would be the person to go for? |
1:15.7 | And it sort of, I just came to the obvious conclusion that we should be going for |
1:19.6 | the leader of the Labour Party, the Prime Minister, because, you know, he is the most |
1:25.5 | important person in Britain today. |
1:28.4 | And I said to them, as I was pitching, sort of trying to convince them to give me access |
1:34.7 | so that I could sort of understand him, I said, look, you've had a difficult start, clearly. |
1:42.8 | You've had the riots. You've had a difficult start, clearly. You've had the riots. |
1:45.0 | You've had a terrible inheritance from the Conservative Party. |
1:50.0 | All of that is true. |
1:52.0 | But if there is one sort of totally reasonable criticism, |
1:55.0 | it is surely that you have kind of failed to articulate what it is that the Labour Party is for, what it is that you're trying |
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