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Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

What are the lessons of the Mandelson saga?

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.7909 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Predictably, Peter Mandelson's return to the centre of the political stage has ended in crisis. Mandelson's influence on Keir Starmer grew after Labour lost the Hartlepool by-election in the early days of Starmer's leadership. The fashionable narrative is that Starmer changed his strategy for the better after Hartlepool, but is that when the seeds were sown that have led to the current crisis around his leadership? • Rock & Roll Politics is live in the main concert hall at Kings Place on Thursday September 25th at the end of the Labour Party Conference week! Tickets available here.   • Subscribe to Patreon for bonus podcasts, the main podcast a day early and ad free… plus special exclusive live events. Written and presented by Steve Richards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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Music specially selected Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards.

0:56.5

Thank you very much for tuning in wherever you are.

0:59.7

And you know what I'm going to say.

1:01.6

We have got a lot to cram in in our time together.

1:05.3

We are gathering after another wild few days in British politics. And you could say that virtually every week

1:13.7

and could do, incidentally, I think from the financial crash of 2008 onwards. But there's no doubt

1:20.2

the last few days and no doubt the forthcoming few days will reinforce the notion of wildness in British politics. So in a minute, if it's

1:32.6

okay with you, a few reflections from me, relatively concise because I want to get to your

1:39.0

brilliant emails, some of which are about the theme of Kirstama and this government inevitably,

1:47.0

but others too, very interesting on housing policy, the BBC and so on. I hope we can get to

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