What’s Wes Streeting up to?
Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards
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4.7 • 909 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Wes Streeting has enjoyed a high profile under Keir Starmer so far. Recently he made a significant intervention in the debate over assisted dying, while announcing the first Alan Milburn inspired NHS reforms. What will the consequences be?
Plus brilliant questions from the Rock & Roll Politics co-operative – and important assembly notices.
Rock & Roll Politics is live at Kings Place on November 27th for the last show of 2024, the year of Trump, Starmer and Badenoch. There’s a lot to make sense of. Tickets here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me steve richards thank you very much for tuning in |
| 0:23.1 | and as ever we have got a lot to cram in in our time together there's a lot going on and uh sometimes |
| 0:31.4 | i have to think what what to exclude from the topics that we might reflect on in the rock and roll politics cooperative. |
| 0:40.0 | Just a couple of notices. |
| 0:41.4 | Oh yeah, I haven't told you what my reflections will be before we turn to a range of brilliant, |
| 0:47.4 | brilliant questions, which cover a lot of ground and delve deep. |
| 0:52.2 | I'm going to look at the curious politics of the assisted |
| 0:57.3 | dying bill. I think it says even though it's a free vote, it shines quite a lot of light on |
| 1:04.7 | the politics of the government and then link that because West Streeting the Health Secretary is obviously becoming |
| 1:14.2 | a key player in relation to his opposition to the assisted dying bill into his proposals, |
| 1:21.2 | his early proposals for NHS reform, given that the cooperative has focused a lot on what form reform should take of the NHS. |
| 1:31.8 | We can do a neat segue into that, then over to some of you who have written these brilliant |
| 1:37.6 | questions, and then we all need to go and lie down in a darkened room, but I know you're all |
| 1:42.4 | running and walking whilst listening to this. So completely legitimate to have a lie down afterwards. Just a reminder, rock and roll |
| 1:49.8 | politics is live at King's Place, the last show of the year on November the 27th. I'm going to do |
| 1:55.5 | something different with this show. One of the things we're going to do, obviously, look at Trump, Badenock and so on. |
| 2:03.2 | But this government, I think, of all the governments I've covered as a political journalist, is in many ways the hardest to read. |
| 2:12.4 | The New Labour era, there was quite a lot going on behind the scenes, but it was, if you understood the Blair Brown |
| 2:19.5 | dynamic, you understood the government. The Tory years tend to be played out very much on the |
| 2:25.8 | surface. This is, this is harder to read. So one of the things I'm going to do is put the case |
| 2:31.3 | that the government's had a good start and then take a bow and put the |
| 2:37.2 | opposite case that the government has had a surprisingly wobbly, fragile start and see which way |
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