You Ask Us: Is Starmer haunted by Blair, and how do you raise voter turnout?
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🗓️ 11 August 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Labour’s dominance in the polls draws obvious comparisons with 1997-era New Labour. But is it fair to compare Keir Starmer with Tony Blair – and what should the current Labour leader learn from his predecessor? Anoosh and Freddie tackle a listener’s question.
Also – how do we incentivise voter turn out? One listener has a novel idea. Could it work?
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| 1:44.7 | Hi, I'm Anush. I'm Freddie. And welcome to the New Statesman podcast. This is an episode we |
| 1:55.1 | like to call You Ask Us. I'm Anush Shekelyan, Britain editor of The New Statesman and host |
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