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The New Statement

Hi, I'm Anouche.

I'm Zoe.

And I'm Rachel.

And welcome to the New Statement's Politics Podcast.

This is an episode we like to call, you ask us.

Hello, I'm Anouche Shekelian, Britain Editor at the New Statement and host of this podcast

and joining me in the studio, I have our policy and politics correspondent, Zoe Grunovald

and our Deputy Political Editor, Rachel Wimouth.

So we've had a lot of questions coming on this topic.

So we've just picked one that sort of sums up the tone of a lot of them.

If the Israel invasion continues to escalate, how many seats could Labour be at risk of losing

as a result of Keir Starmer's disastrous messaging, this is the question as words last week.

So people are sort of very shocked basically about the comments that he made in an LBC interview.

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