Why Britain's Left is radicalising
The Story
The Times
4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Tomorrow, the Greens announce their new leader, and one contender has been borrowing from the Farage playbook in his campaign. Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn's new populist party is getting hundreds of thousands of sign-ups since its launch. Are the days of gradualism - and our two-party system dominance - over?
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| 0:30.5 | I'm Sam Coates from Sky News. And I'm Anne McHelboy from Politico. Every morning before you're up, we're speaking to the key players, reading all the papers, and working out the day ahead in British politics. |
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| 1:02.0 | From the Times and the Sunday times, this is the story. |
| 1:08.3 | I'm Manvian Rana. |
| 1:17.3 | Okay. This is the story. I'm Manvian Rana. Summer is officially over, for the politicians at least, as MPs flood back to Westminster today. |
| 1:25.0 | For Labor, it's been a tough recess. |
| 1:29.7 | Last week, a devastating new poll showed the party's popularity at a six-year low, with reform speeding ahead with an eight-point |
| 1:36.7 | lead. But the threat for Kirstarmer's government doesn't just come from the right. They're also |
| 1:42.5 | losing support to a resurgent, radical left. |
| 1:46.0 | Listen, people have had enough out there. |
| 1:48.0 | They're fed up with seeing cuts to their services, continuing child poverty, |
| 1:53.0 | and the only thing they can find money for is more weapons of war. |
| 1:57.0 | Jeremy Corbyn, remember him, has set up a new political party and polling suggests it could |
| 2:03.4 | take a quarter of the Labour vote. |
| 2:06.1 | Hundreds of thousands of people signing up almost overnight for this new political party. |
| 2:10.1 | Larger than the largest Labour and party membership ever. |
| 2:13.7 | Although they do still need to finalise some of the finer points of having a party, |
| 2:18.3 | like coming up with a name. |
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