What can Keir Starmer learn from Joe Biden? With Matthew McGregor
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🗓️ 23 August 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
As the US president Joe Biden starts to turn around his poor polling figures ahead of the midterm elections later this year, are there lessons that the Labour leader Keir Starmer can learn from his Democrat counterpart? The veteran campaigner Matthew McGregor, who worked for Ed Miliband and supported digital campaigns for the Democrats in the US, talks to Rachel Wearmouth about what Labour could learn from American politics, and why the party also needs to look at countries like Australia and Germany.
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| 0:30.0 | Hi, I'm Rachel, and on today's New Statesman podcast, |
| 0:32.0 | I'm joined by veteran campaigner Matthew McGregor. |
| 0:35.0 | Matthew is currently CEO of the political campaign organisation |
| 0:39.0 | 38 degrees and has a wealth of experience in politics. |
| 0:43.0 | He was known as Barack Obama's backroom Britain |
| 0:46.0 | and has a wealth of experience in politics. |
| 0:50.0 | Matthew is currently CEO of the political campaign organisation |
| 0:54.0 | 38 degrees and has a wealth of experience in politics. |
| 0:58.0 | He was known as Barack Obama's backroom Britain, |
| 1:00.0 | after he was head-wintered to be director of digital rapid response |
| 1:03.0 | on the former US President's re-election campaign. |
| 1:06.0 | He has worked as an advisor to Ed Miliband |
| 1:09.0 | and was director of campaigns for the anti-racism organisation |
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