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Politics Unpacked

What Is Starmer Waiting For?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley and Times Red Box Editor Patrick Maguire have been hitting up their contacts books, speaking to some of the Labour leader's closest colleagues, who are getting increasingly jittery about whether he is the man for the job. 


PLUS Libby Purves and Rachel Sylvester on early years learning and dealing with criticism.



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0:00.0

Hello, this is the web box podcast. I'm Matt Shawley bringing you the rest of my times

0:08.6

videos show. Don't forget you can listen live 10 to 1 Monday to Friday on your DAB radio

0:13.9

in your kitchen, in your car, in your shower. I know some people like to listen to the

0:18.5

show, or on your smart speaker or download the times radio app wherever you get your

0:24.2

app from. Right, coming up on today's episode, what is Kirstama waiting for? That's what

0:31.2

one shadow cabinet minister said to me recently. Another one said he's Mr. Bowling, their

0:37.9

voters aren't even thinking about him most of the time. We're all concerned that given

0:42.2

all of the problems the government is facing from party gate to the cost of living, why

0:47.3

is the Labour Party's lead only in the single figures and has Kirstama got what it takes

0:53.1

to actually secure a victory at the next election. So coming up, we've got a deep dive

0:57.3

into Labour shadow cabinet. Patrick McGuire and I have been speaking to lots of Labour

1:00.8

front benches and getting their private assessment of how the Labour leader is doing. It's really

1:05.6

fascinating. Listen, that's coming up. And just a moment first though, as ever, we kick

1:09.4

off with our columnist panel and on a Monday, it's Libby Rachey. It's Libby Purvis and

1:13.3

Libby Purvis, Libby Purvis and Rachel Sylvester. The columnist would Libby Rachey, Libby Purvis

1:23.3

and Rachel Sylvester, on Times Radio. Yes, that's all I want to speak to our very

1:29.3

columnist. We've got Libby Purvis, Monty Libby. Morning. We've got Rachel Sylvester, Monty

1:35.5

Rachel. Morning, man. So Rachel, let's start with you and the Times Education Commission,

1:40.5

which has been a year in the making? A year, yes, a little over a year.

1:45.1

A little over a year, where you've sort of taken a proper, in depth look at what's going

1:48.5

on on the education. And you've found, particularly today, taking a look at primary school pupils

1:57.3

arriving at school already so far behind in terms of, can't say their own names, can't

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