What does Labour's "growth worth having" actually mean?
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Labour want to distinguish themselves from Boris Johnson's "levelling up". What are they planning instead?
Hannah Barnes, Rachel Cunliffe and Freddie Hayward answer listener questions on Labour's growth strategy, and whether the new government's plans will impact individuals' personal finances.
They also discuss the new "rising star" Labour MPs to look out for, and whether polling during election campaigns impacts the final result.
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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 of the New Statesman |
| 0:11.0 | and you're listening to the New Statesman podcast. I am joined today by my colleagues Rachel Kunleff |
| 0:15.9 | our associate political editor and our political correspondent Freddie Haywood to |
| 0:20.4 | answer some of your questions. Welcome both. I'm going to kick us off with an |
| 0:24.4 | absolutely lovely email we got from Paul and Claire in Cornwall and it flows from |
| 0:28.7 | what we were talking about earlier in the week. Kiea Starma doing his very best to |
| 0:32.2 | reach out to regional mayors and of |
| 0:34.3 | course the nations. So the question is this and it relates to the the comments that Kiea |
| 0:38.4 | stama made at the time and he said if it's going to be growth that's worth |
| 0:42.3 | having it's got to be across the country and |
| 0:45.3 | in every single place and raising standards in every single place. So that's what |
| 0:50.2 | Kiyastama said to the regional mayors and he said you are absolutely central to it. |
| 0:54.8 | Can you help unpack please what growth that is worth having actually means here and what standards |
| 1:01.6 | might be the basis for evaluating success. |
| 1:04.6 | Freddie. |
| 1:05.6 | Yeah, it's a great question. |
| 1:07.6 | Labour have actually been very specific about this. |
| 1:09.7 | So the overarching aim is to have two years of highest growth in the G7. |
| 1:15.0 | Now that's obviously relative to how other countries do, but that's why they've made it |
| 1:19.7 | consecutive because they want to show a trend. It also means that if you just have a bad year |
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