Keir today, gone tomorrow (with Pete Kerr)

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges facing PM Keir Starmer's government, including internal and external leadership issues.

Almost two years into Labour's reign, with u turns, resignations and controversies abound, another crisis has hit PM Keir Starmer's government. Host Adam Quinn is joined by British politics expert Pete Kerr to discuss Starmer, Mandelson and McSweeney. With Reform polling well, a byelection and local elections in the offing, we talk challenges to Starmer's leadership both internal and external and what might be next for this government. We discuss it all here. Produced by Conor McKenna in association with the University of Birmingham. You can follow us on Twitter.com/PolWorldView and stay up to date And Like our facebook.com/polworldview Adam Quinn - facebook.com/adamquinn161 Copyright 2025 Music: "Go Cart" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

People in this episode

Host: Adam Quinn

Guest: Pete Kerr

Topics covered

• British politics
• Labour Party
• leadership challenges
• elections
• government controversies

Keywords

• Keir Starmer
• Mandelson
• McSweeney
• Reform polling
• byelection
• local elections

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Books & works: Go Cart

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