Is Keir Starmer’s vision enough? With Ed Miliband

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🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Anoosh Chakelian and Freddie Hayward are joined by Ed Miliband, the shadow climate change and net zero secretary and former Labour leader, to discuss Keir Starmer’s speech from the Labour Party conference in Liverpool.

They discuss the pledge to create a publicly owned “Great British energy” company to cut bills and the conference slogan “A fairer, greener future”; how the economic turmoil will affect their ability to deliver these promises; and whether Miliband would advise a note of caution to the optimistic party faithful.

Then the New Statesman polling expert, Ben Walker, joins the podcast to discuss a recent YouGov poll that shows Labour leading the Tories by 17 points and whether the plunging pound has damaged public confidence in Liz Truss’s government.

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0:23.0	The New Statesman.
0:26.0	Hi, I'm Anouche.
0:29.0	Hi, I'm Freddie.
0:30.0	And on today's episode of the New Statesman podcast, we have a special bonus episode where we speak to Ed Miliband about Kirstnermer's Labour Party conference speech.
0:39.0	And you ask Ben about the polling.
0:46.0	So in the spirit of collaboration, we do sometimes invite fellow podcasters on to the New Statesman podcast.
0:52.0	And we're delighted to be joined by fellow podcaster and also shadow climate change and net zero secretary and former Labour leader Ed Miliband.
0:59.0	Thanks so much for joining us.
1:00.0	Well, thank you so much for having me on the New Statesman podcast.
1:03.0	It's my first appearance.
1:05.0	First of many, we're sure.
1:06.0	First of many, I'm sure.
1:07.0	Welcome to your debut.
1:08.0	And actually, we've got you at the right time because Kirstnermer has just finished his party conference speech.
1:13.0	And actually, I did think when I was listening to it, it has your fingerprints all over it, doesn't it?
1:18.0	It was a great speech.
1:19.0	And it was very much Kirst's work and Kirst's speech.
1:21.0	And I think set out a set of election choices, basically, I think.
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