Why did Starmer steal 'take back control'?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
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🗓️ 5 January 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Max Jeffery speaks to Isabel Hardman and James Heale.
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| 0:17.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffee How Shots, the spectators' daily politics podcast. |
| 0:21.2 | I'm Max Jeffrey and I'm joined by Isabel Hardman and James Heal. |
| 0:25.9 | Kirstal McGave for Speech this morning giving his vision for the country. |
| 0:29.2 | He was just down the road from a Rishi Sunat gave his speech yesterday in East London. |
| 0:33.8 | James, what did Kirstal have to say? |
| 0:36.0 | Well I think really the thing which we'll get the headlines is the take-back control bill he |
| 0:39.6 | proposes to empower local communities and more devolution throughout the country and whereby |
| 0:45.1 | local regions can ask for more powers from Westminster and there'll be grants on this piece of |
| 0:48.6 | legislation. I think this shows that Kirstal was attempt to park his tanks on the Tories lawn, |
| 0:53.3 | steal the clothes and also helps put to bed that remain issue. Obviously he was an unremainer |
| 0:57.9 | campaigned against leave, came up against one of the most effective campaigns in recent history |
| 1:01.7 | with take-back control and the 2019 election. So it's an attempt really to try and put that to bed |
| 1:06.2 | and also a more communitarian theme looking forward. I think it also just shows that going ahead in |
| 1:11.8 | the future, I think the gender of levelling up is there to be one and Kirstal McGave thinks he |
| 1:16.0 | can get something out of that and I think it's also worth mentioning his delivery too and his |
| 1:19.6 | delivery is improved and I think that you can definitely see he's a man who is confidence is |
| 1:23.8 | growing, given he's got 20 points pending the polls. This speech was about more about big picture |
| 1:28.9 | stuff so we know a lot about what the kind of big vision for the next labour government is going |
| 1:32.1 | to be but less of a retail offering but given we've still got another almost two years until the |
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