Are Labour the party to finally fix housing? w/ Kwajo Tweneboa, Toby Lloyd and Sam Freedman

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🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

It’s week one in government and Labour have hit the ground running. We’ve got a new cabinet and big moves on planning reform and international relations are underway. But what about the opposition? Nish and Coco check in with Substack superstar Sam Freedman to uncover some of the challenges the new government faces over the course of the parliament and hear who might lead a new-look Conservative Party.

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0:00.0	We're one week into a labor government and suddenly things are happening.
0:06.0	After a campaign fought on the basis of anything is better than this, let's find out what that anything is.
0:11.0	I'm Nishkamat.
0:12.0	And I'm Coco Khan and this is Pod Save the UK.
0:15.0	There's no rest for the wicked here. There's been a frenzy of activity as labour kicks into gear.
0:20.0	To chat through the big moves, we're joined by the co-author of the UK's most popular
0:23.2	sub-stat, Sam Friedman.
0:24.7	And later we're joined by special guests, Quijo Tuenaboa and Toby Lloyd to discuss
0:29.2	the biggest issue on the government's plate, housing. But first...
0:34.0	Whatever our political differences, it's now time to turn the page,
0:38.9	unite in a common endeavor of national renewal and make this new parliament a parliament of service.
0:46.0	Thank you.
0:48.0	That's Kia Starma in his opening addresses as the new parliament began on Tuesday. So we thought we'd take a
0:53.7	quick moment to have a look at the new cabinet. So that's the most senior of
0:56.9	government officials and the government faces that we're going to be seeing a
1:00.6	lot of over the coming years. Yeah that's right a lot of the appointments
1:03.9	were as expected Rachel Reeves becomes the first female Chancellor of the Exchequer
1:08.2	Angela Reyna as the deputy prime minister and the Secretary of State for
1:11.6	whatever the new department for levelling up
1:14.0	housing and communities is going to be because Labour very quickly announced that
1:18.0	they would drop the term leveling up. To be fair to them, it's completely
1:21.6	meaningless.
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