Who are the ‘incumbent disrupters’ in Keir Starmer’s government?

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.6 • 825 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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The new fashionable term in politics is ‘disrupter’ or ‘insurgent’. Morgan McSweeney briefs that the government must be insurgents, but does he mean it? The cautious Number 10 operation seems wary of genuine change making ministers, so who are the insurgents? And can Starmer be one? Plus, brilliant questions from the Rock & Roll Politics co-operative. Subscribe to Patreon for live events, bonus podcasts, and to get the regular podcast a day early and ad free. Written and presented by Steve Richards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:21.1	Thank you for tuning in.
1:22.8	And thank you all those who attended the live show at King's Place last Monday. Yeah, last Monday,
1:29.4	or who watched it on the stream. It was a great evening, as ever. Oh yeah, and on the stream.
1:35.9	One of the predictions, because it was on Monday night when Keir Stama was having the big dinner in
1:40.6	Brussels with EU leaders. So one of the predictions was to ask the audience and the
1:48.3	stream audience, whether they predicted that we would be back in the single market within
1:54.1	10 years. And the stream audience predicted that we would buy 52 to 48%. It had a ring about it. I can't think why.
2:06.2	Anyway, thank you all very much for taking part and there'll be another live show pretty soon.
2:11.4	I'll tell you about it near at the time. And oh yeah, it was quite interesting for me.
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