Five years on, who is Keir Starmer?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
He came in as the acceptable face of Corbynism but looks more and more like a Conservative with each passing domestic policy announcement (take your pick: winter fuel, waging war with the size of the state, welfare cuts etc.). Internationally, it is a different story. Despite saying little on foreign policy in the build-up to the general election, he has been widely praised for his foreign policy and his steady hand when dealing with Trump.
Lucy Dunn, James Heale and John McTernan discuss the many faces of Keir Starmer.
Produced by Oscar Edmondson.
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| 0:46.6 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots. I'm Lucy Dunn and today I'm joined by James Heel |
| 0:50.7 | and the former Labour advisor John McTurton. Today marks five years since Keir Sturman |
| 0:55.9 | became leader of the Labour Party, succeeding Jeremy Corbyn, purging the Labour Left and going on to |
| 1:00.3 | win the 2024 general election last July. James, can you talk us through some of the standout changes |
| 1:05.9 | Starrmer has made to the Labour Party over the last five years? Sure. So I think that maybe |
| 1:09.9 | you could say that Keir Starmour's leadership of the Labour Party falls the last five years. Sure. So I think that maybe you could say that Kirstama's leadership of the Labour Party |
| 1:12.4 | falls into maybe three categories. The first being the period from April 2020 to about |
| 1:18.4 | September 2021, in which he was very much struggling to make his mark on that party for two reasons, |
| 1:25.0 | one of which there was simply so much to sort out after the chaos |
| 1:28.0 | of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership. So that meant just the basic stuff about going through looking |
| 1:33.0 | at people who be members. Of course, the EHRC had said that Labour was an institutionally |
| 1:37.3 | anti-Semitic organisation. So that was very much making Labour actually fit to be a proper |
| 1:42.2 | and governing party this country again. But the other reason |
| 1:45.1 | why he struggled, of course, was the COVID pandemic at that period. It was very hard for any |
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