What can we learn from Labour's first days in power?
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Since forming a new government on Friday, Keir Starmer's cabinet has been hard at work across the weekend to prove to the nation that they are a government of service.
Hannah Barnes, associate editor, is joined by Rachel Cunliffe, associate political editor, and Freddie Hayward, political correspondent, to discuss surprise appointments, early policy announcements, and the results of France's shock election this weekend.
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| 0:00.0 | The New Statesman. |
| 0:02.0 | The New Statesman. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello, I'm Hannah Barnes, associate editor at the New Statesman |
| 0:10.0 | and you're listening to the New Statesman podcast as we enter the first few |
| 0:14.4 | weeks of this new labor government will continue to bring you daily episodes with |
| 0:18.8 | our politics team to discuss and analyze the new direction being taken in the country. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm joined today in the studio by the new statesman's associate political editor, |
| 0:28.0 | Rachel Kunleif, and our political correspondent, |
| 0:31.0 | Freddie Haywood. |
| 0:32.0 | It's like we never went away. |
| 0:34.0 | On it goes. Time has lost all meaning. |
| 0:37.0 | Restful weekend? |
| 0:38.0 | Not really. |
| 0:40.0 | Not really. Was there a weekend? We had new cabinet to rise about. |
| 0:42.0 | Yeah. We did. Let's start there as if by magic. Few surprises really in the |
| 0:47.0 | cabinet. Essentially the Shadow Cabinet kept their roles. One big surprise which will come on to but obviously with that result in Bristol Central |
| 0:58.4 | and Thangam, Debenair losing her seat we've got Lisa Nandy as Culture Secretary. |
| 1:03.2 | Good to see her in the cabinet, Freddie? |
| 1:05.1 | Yeah, definitely. I mean, she was demoted last year and it was seen as a sign that she wasn't |
| 1:10.5 | as close to Lotto and Kistormousestheim's team as she had been before. |
| 1:13.6 | We got to remember at least and Nanny stood against him in the leadership. |
| 1:16.5 | The first job she got was Shadow Foreign Secretary, then it was leveling up and housing, |
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