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Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

Will Starmer's reset make a difference?

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.7909 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

With Labour languishing in the polls, Keir Starmer has reshuffled his top team… yet again. His leadership has been punctuated by changes in senior personnel, so does that tell us more about him or them?  My book on Tony Blair is published next Thursday. You can pre-order it here. Rock & Roll Politics is live at Kings Place on Thursday September 25th at the end of the Labour Party Conference week! Subscribe to Patreon for bonus podcasts, the main podcast a day early and ad free… plus special exclusive live events. Written and presented by Steve Richards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:36.7

Thank you very much for tuning in wherever

0:39.2

you are around the world. And yeah, God, we've got so much to cram in in our time together.

0:46.3

As I am recording, the start of Keir Starrmer's reset, in inverted commas, is happening. So we will examine the scope for a reset, the degree to which it can

0:58.8

make much difference, and try to make sense of it all. We've got just some brilliant questions as

1:06.0

well from all of you reflecting this extraordinary political landscape, the rise of reform, the

1:13.3

proliferation of political parties that have taken place, and what was a factor at the election,

1:19.0

actually, remember with reform getting MPs, Greens getting MPs, Lib Dems, back, getting 70 plus

1:26.8

MPs, etc.

1:27.9

So we'll come to your brilliant questions as well.

1:32.5

And yeah, so a lot to cram in.

1:34.1

Thank you all of those of you from the Rock and Roll Politics Cooperative

1:37.5

who came to my shows at the Edinburgh Festival.

1:41.4

It all now seems a long time ago.

1:43.9

And you know what I should be doing? I should be lying on a

1:47.0

beach, smoking a jitaine and having a glass of white, white wine, chilled, and looking at a sunset over,

1:55.7

I don't know, I betha before rocking the night away at a disco. But here I am reflecting on Kier Stama's reset at the start

2:04.6

of the new political year. So yeah, we'll come to your questions shortly, but say thanks all of you

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