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How ruthless is Keir Starmer willing to be? w/ Anushka Asthana and Josh Babarinde MP

Pod Save the UK

Crooked Media

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

With just two weeks to go until the Autumn budget, the Labour government is preparing to make some huge reforms. But just how ruthless is Keir Starmer willing to be in reshaping the UK? Coco and Nish dig into it with Anushka Asthana, ITV’s political editor and author of “Taken as Red: How Labour won big and the Tories crashed the party”.

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Pod Save the UK. I'm Nishkumar.

0:04.0

And I'm Coco Khan. With just two weeks to go until the autumn budget,

0:07.8

Labour is preparing to make some huge reforms. But how ruthless is Kiestama willing to be in reshaping the UK?

0:15.0

We're speaking to I TV's political editor for Nushka Astana to find out.

0:19.0

And later, in the wake of the Tory's latest round of madness, we're joined by Liberal Democrat MP Josh Babarinde

0:25.2

to discuss how the government can be held to account in the absence of a sane opposition.

0:31.5

One week on from the great Big Reset inside Number 10, suddenly it seems like there's a

0:36.9

flurry of activity from the government. It's a nice change from the month of stasis, but with

0:42.3

a lifeless opposition and a stonking majority

0:45.4

are we about to see some radical reforms?

0:48.1

To find out we're joined by deputy political editor of I TV news and author of

0:52.1

taking as read how labour one big and the Tories

0:54.6

crash the party Anushkastana. Welcome to the UK, Nushikka. It's great to have you.

0:58.8

Thank you very much for having me. At the speed of which news is moving. I did think about that when I was reading the book and just the point when you're talking about Sue Gravy,

1:08.0

pointed as chief of staff and you're like, how much of that are you conscious of when you're writing a book about politics

1:14.0

particularly about British politics I guess post 2014 or 2015 onwards?

1:18.9

Yeah it's really tricky and what I had to do basically was make the book about everything up to that point.

1:24.0

So really it's a book about how they got to the election, how they won the election.

1:27.8

I did then attempt to book a chapter on governing and I read it back.

1:32.0

It's not that bad. I I mean I did argue that in

1:34.8

theory Sue Gray as chief of staff and Morgan McSweeny as chief advisor as he was

1:40.8

then could be Kieer's superpower because they had different skills,

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