Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a podcast from Politics Home.

I'm your host, Alan Tolhurst, and after the first King's speech under Labour government for 15 years,

we're taking a look at what the first 100 days of Akirstrauma administration

will look like, after the new Prime Minister said his plan for government would take the breaks

off Britain and put the country back on the path of national renewal. With 39 bills, they've set

out a packed legislative agenda, featuring a big focus on devolution and housing, but also

some criticism that pledges on renationalisation and

top-down targets, signal a return to so-called big government. To discuss all of that and more,

I'm delighted to say I'm joined by cavalcade of experts to look at Labour's plans to kickstart

their time in office. After Starma promised, there'll be no quick fix. And so to discuss all of that, we've now got in front of me, I've got Harry Carter Pinner, the new interim director at IPPR, and also Ryan Wayne, executive director of politics at the Tony Blair Institute.

I'll start with you, Ryan, kind of stepping back from those 39, or I think some have got it as 40 bills in the King's speech.

You know, what did you kind of make of the broader sense of it,

what it says about this coming Labor government's priorities

and where the kind of early focuses of Stamber's administration.

For me, it was very clearly policy program for a government

that wants to make things happen.

And I do think that is a marked change from

what we've had previously, which was, to be honest, much more focused on internal politics

and a laissez-faire approach to the country. But that laissez-faire approach was basically leaving

Britain to decline. And I think this Labour government clearly wants

to reverse that. I thought the policy programmes, when the bills laid out, they speak to something

that Michael Barber, who you'll know is one of the leading thinkers on on how you make government

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