Why Team Starmer refuse to believe the hype around them
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The Labour Party has a talent for losing elections. Over the last century, it has held office for just 33 years and has produced just six prime ministers. The Conservatives, by comparison, have held office for 67 years and produced 14 prime ministers. It is the burden of history that explains Labour’s caution at the outset of this election year.
Senior editor George Eaton joins associate political editor Rachel Cunliffe in the studio to discuss why Team Starmer are refusing to believe the hype around them.
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| 1:05.0 | Hello, I'm Rachel Kannelliff, associate political editor at The New Statesman. |
| 1:12.0 | Today on the podcast I'm joined by our senior editor and So George you kicked off 2024 with this piece in the first UCX-Men |
| 1:28.3 | edition of the new year about labour's war on complacency. |
| 1:36.3 | Why does Labour have to have a war on complacency in the first place? Like, all of the polls are saying that basically the Tories can't catch up with them. |
| 1:42.4 | Why is it that they have to inject this |
| 1:44.5 | this note of caution at the start this year? So I think the the starting point as |
| 1:49.5 | Pat McFadden Labour's general election, put it to the Shadow Cabinet recently, is that |
| 1:55.8 | we usually lose. |
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