What could Starmer's first year in power look like?

Coffee House Shots

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🗓️ 15 June 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Picture the scene: it's July 5th and a triumphant Keir Starmer arrives at Downing Street after achieving a supermajority and the Tories have only narrowly prevented the Lib Dems becoming official party of opposition. Whilst this may sound far fetched, it is the likely result when you take an average of the last week's polls. What would those first 100 days of Labour look like?

Katy Balls speaks to Fraser Nelson and John McTernan, former political secretary to Tony Blair.

Produced by Oscar Edmondson.

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0:18.0	Hello and welcome to Coffey House shots The Spectators Daily Politics
0:26.0	podcast I'm Katie Balls the Spectators political editor. Picture the scene
0:30.4	it's July 5th a Triumph from Kieostama has just arrived at 10 Downing Street
0:35.1	after securing a majority of 272 larger than Tony Blair's in 1997 there are 80
0:41.8	Tory MPs left and they have narrowly prevented Ed Davies' Lib Dems from becoming
0:47.0	Her Majesty's official opposition with Ed Davy on 63.
0:51.1	Well this may sound Farfetchfetched this is the average likely result according to
0:56.0	electoral calculus of the past week's polls so with that in mind I'm joined
1:00.6	by John McTennan and Fraser Nelson to discuss what a first year of a Labour government might look like.
1:07.0	John, we've had the Labour Manifesto this week.
1:10.0	I suppose to begin, given this is a document that will guide them unless of course the plans
1:14.3	change. What did you make of it?
1:16.3	Well there's a famous saying isn't there.
1:18.8	It's of Mario Cuomo that we campaign in poetry but we govern in in prose but it's clear that the Labour Party,
1:25.2	Kieffz D'Amz Labour Party, are campaigning in prose. This was a solid professional job.
1:31.5	It jumped the first hurdle of a manifesto which is you mustn't have anything negative to talk about.
1:37.0	No dementia tax, no spread and spray of spending promises, no surprises, no rabbits out of the hat. This was a real star
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