Will Keir Starmer's changes revive Labour?
Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards
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4.7 • 909 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Keir Starmer has kept more or less the same Cabinet but given most of them new jobs. Will it work as Reform UK soars in the polls?
Rock & Roll Politics is live in the main concert hall at Kings Place on Thursday September 25th at the end of the Labour Party Conference week! Tickets available here. https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/words/steve-richards-presents-rock-n-roll-politics-6/
My biography of Tony Blair is published this Thursday and is available here. https://www.waterstones.com/book/tony-blair/steve-richards/9781800754409
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast me steve richards thank you very much for |
| 0:22.4 | tuning in wherever you are uh not a lot has happened has it since we last gathered in the rock and roll |
| 0:28.4 | politics cooperative for last week's uh podcast no hardly anything at all so anyway we've got to make sense |
| 0:35.9 | of all the that's my attempt at a sort of pathetic predictable joke we've got to make sense of all the, that's my attempt at a sort of pathetic, |
| 0:39.2 | predictable joke. We've got to make sense of it all before that, a few notices. And after my |
| 0:46.6 | attempt to make sense of some of it, some brilliant questions from you, they've been kind of pouring in. |
| 0:52.7 | Some, to be honest, they were brilliant, |
| 0:55.0 | but updated, you know, when Angela Rainer was sort of hanging on and then was gone by last Friday. |
| 1:00.5 | So anyway, I'm going to read the more recent in relation to the dramas being played out now, |
| 1:06.6 | but they've all been brilliant. So thank you. For new listeners, you're now part of the never-ending |
| 1:12.6 | discussion debate in the rock and roll politics cooperative. So first of all, a notice for the |
| 1:19.4 | next live show at King's Place in London, the main concert hall there. It's on Thursday, |
| 1:26.4 | September the 25th, which is the week of the Labor Party |
| 1:32.8 | Conference. The Labour Party Conference will have just ended and then we gather together at King's |
| 1:39.5 | Place. So if you can't make the conference, this is much better. For a start, it's much more fun, |
| 1:45.5 | our live events. |
| 1:46.7 | So do come along. |
| 1:51.1 | It's really well-timed because I think quite a lot will go on that week. |
| 1:54.8 | And, of course, a lot will be going on before that week. |
| 2:04.2 | So it's Thursday, September the 25th, as I can't think of a better timed live show. So, yeah, tickets on the Kings Place website, probably in the link with the blurb for this podcast. The other thing, |
| 2:10.3 | and it's going to relate a bit to my reflections on recent days, my biography of Tony Blair in the series of Prime Minister's post-war is out this Thursday. |
| 2:24.3 | And the more I think about it, that too is quite good timing. |
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