Will the Mandelson saga do for Starmer's premiership?
Not Another One
Richards Green Montgomerie Martin
4.7 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
After high drama at Westminster, the team debate the low politics that seem to bedevil decision-making at the heart of the government. Has the PM's famous ruthlessness backfired? And how vulnerable is he to a potential challenge after the May 7 elections? Might Scotland provide a twist?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Not Another One, the podcast with me, Steve Richards, Ian Martin, Tim Montgomery and Miranda Green. Thank you for tuning in. Well, you can guess what we are going to reflect on in our time together. |
| 0:24.4 | Before we do, is everyone okay? |
| 0:26.9 | Miranda, you weren't able to make it last week with the best excuse for podcasts. |
| 0:31.2 | You lost your voice. |
| 0:33.2 | I know. |
| 0:34.4 | You do know what? |
| 0:35.4 | There was a part of me, Steve, that did think, you know, paging Dr. Freud, right? |
| 0:40.7 | Because if you, if your livelihood is yacking, and you can't yak for like eight days, |
| 0:50.0 | they completely lost my voice for eight days, you know, I'm, I don't know. |
| 0:54.9 | Completely. |
| 0:55.7 | It's like self-sabotage on a kind of phenomenally efficient cellular level. |
| 1:01.2 | I don't know. |
| 1:01.6 | Anyway, as you can hear, I can speak again. |
| 1:04.6 | Your voice out. |
| 1:05.2 | Something that my family is not that pleased about, but I am. |
| 1:11.2 | I can't believe they preferred silence. |
| 1:14.6 | There's a little bit of a huskiness to your voice, Miranda. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm not going to go any further on, but there is a husky tone that I can't work. |
| 1:20.1 | I'm not, I've got to tell you, I'm not, it's taking like, this is like week three of this virus. |
| 1:25.8 | And I know exactly where I got it. I got it on the number 18 bus, |
| 1:30.3 | which is a sort of cursed bus route. If any of our listeners take that bus regularly, |
| 1:35.6 | somebody's always either having fisticuffs or kicking off or breathing some dreadful disease |
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