Is Starmer’s Labour drama as fleeting as Streeting’s bid for PM?
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The episode discusses the implications of recent local elections on the Labour Party and potential leadership changes.
You can watch this episode on YoutTube: https://youtu.be/5Zb71ekLVBE This week on Planet Normal, your co-pilots of sanity, Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson, sift through the debris of a historic set of local elections that have left Sir Keir Starmer clinging to power. The duo analyse the turquoise tsunami that saw Reform UK gain over 1,400 council seats, whilst the Prime Minister faces a precarious future after Labour’s vote share collapsed in traditional hubs like Birmingham and Cambridge. Who is your co-pilots preferred replacement? Wes Streeting? Angela Rayner? ‘Mad’ Ed Miliband? Or does Andy Burnham stand the best chance with the softy Labour Left? Return stowaway William Coulston joins your co-pilots to dissect the local election results, and where the Social Democrat Party stands on Welfare and why Labour's approach is bankrupting the country. Highlights: Planet Normal: Is Starmer’s Labour drama as fleeting as Streeting? Reform UK gains over 1,400 seats as the traditional two-party system fragments following the May 7th elections. Streeting eyes the prize but is Andy Burnham waiting in the wings? Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward…
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