Why are the Tories bolder when on the verge of power?

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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4.6 • 825 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Labour is way ahead in the polls and has dropped its most radical policy, the £28 billion green recovery plan. But in opposition, in the build up to the 1979 and 2010 elections, the Conservatives put forward radical right wing programmes – and won from opposition. They did not retreat. Why is Labour more cautious and less confident? Rock N Roll Politics is live at Kings Place on March 26th with a brand new show. Tickets here: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/words/steve-richards-presents-rock-n-roll-politics-march-2024/ Support the show on Patreon for bonus podcasts, live events and much more: https://www.patreon.com/RockNRollPolitics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards.
0:21.6	Thank you for tuning in wherever you are in this country, around the world, on Mars, maybe, escaping from the madness of it all.
0:30.7	Anyway, thank you. And as ever, we've got a lot to cram in in our time together.
0:37.3	Very few notices this week in terms of the Assembly.
0:41.1	If it's all right with all of you after just a couple of very brief notices,
0:46.3	I'll pose a question, which is why are the Conservatives when on the verge of power
0:53.4	from opposition, 79, 2010, so much more ambitious in their
1:03.3	radicalism from the right than their equivalence in the Labour Party when they're on the verge of power. And that's obviously in the
1:12.7	context of we've now had the announcement that Labour are scrapping their £28 billion green
1:18.9	recovery plan. We reflected last week in our discussion and with some of my reflections on the challenges of navigating the mad
1:32.3	pre-election tax and spend debate in the context of expecting the 28 billion to be scrapped,
1:41.0	it now has been.
1:42.2	So once again, we're going to delve deep, if that's
1:44.7	all right with all of you, by contrasting the Tory approach to elections when they're ahead in
1:52.8	the polls in opposition and Labour, and pose the question, why. And is it always right that Labour
2:00.7	labour can only win by almost sort of hugging the contours of
2:05.9	the conservative argument and just moving a little away from them? Anyway, that's what I'll be doing.
2:12.7	We'll then return to some of the brilliant points you have made and questions in our never-ending discussion
2:19.8	here on the rock and roll politics cooperative. And that's notice number one. If you want to
2:24.9	join in our never-ending debate, it's Steve Rick 14 at iCloud.com. So I put that right at the
2:32.5	beginning. So if you miss it, because you're out running or building a house or walking up Arthur's seat or something in Edinburgh or by a lake somewhere beautiful, as I know some of you are, it's right at the beginning, the email, so you can join in.
2:49.5	And on that very front, do subscribe and tell friends and
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