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🗓️ 18 July 2025
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Lots to discuss today, between Diane Abbott being suspended (again) and Labour handing the vote to 16-year-olds just before we head into recess.
Abbott’s suspension comes after she was accused of ‘doubling down’ on previous claims that Jewish people experience racism differently from black people. She is the latest Labour troublemaker to be left out in the cold, with seven MPs punished this week for voting against the government – four of them suspended from the party. Is Starmer confusing toughness with strength? And will Abbott’s suspension stick this time?
Elsewhere, 16-year-olds have been given the vote. Those in favour point to the political maturity of young people in the country and welcome this as a move towards fairness and encouraging responsibility, while detractors are crying gerrymandering and a raw attempt to swing the political arithmetic in the governing party’s favour. But will it actually matter? Polling suggests that very few 16–17-year-olds will actually vote – and that many of them prefer the insurgent parties. So who stands to win, and who stands to lose from the very modest youth-vote bump?
Lucy Dunn speaks to Tim Shipman and the pollster Luke Tryl.
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0:46.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shots. |
0:48.4 | I'm Lucy Dunn and today I'm joined by Tim Shipman and more-in-common poster Luke Trill. |
0:53.0 | There's lots to talk about today on the state of the parties ahead of Parliament going into recess, |
0:57.3 | but first, let's dive into the news that came last night, |
1:00.7 | that Diane Abbott has been suspended again from Labour Party |
1:03.5 | after doubling down on her 2023 remarks that Irish, Jewish and traveller people |
1:07.4 | would not all their lives be subject to racism. |
1:10.5 | Tim, the first time that Abbott got suspended, she received support from the party with significant outrage that she could have been blocked from standing at the election last summer. Do you get the censors that's the same feeling of solidarity with her just now? I don't think there is, no, and I think that's part of the reason why they felt able to move against her. Don't forget, last time this |
1:28.5 | happened, it was before the general election. So it's a very different group of people. You've got |
1:33.0 | hundreds of new MPs, a lot of whom are, you know, while some of them are in revolt, a lot of |
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