About this episode

The episode discusses potential strategies for Labour's new leaders to reshape the UK's economic growth amidst an upcoming leadership election.

With a leadership election on the horizon, there are discussions among the backbenches about how potential contenders might look to reshape and re-energise the UK's growth. The Observer's political editor Rachel Sylvester speaks with economics editor Ben Zaranko about what the various approaches might look like. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Rachel Sylvester

Guest: Ben Zaranko

Topics covered

• politics
• economics
• leadership
• growth
• Labour party

Keywords

• Labour
• leadership election
• UK growth
• politics
• economics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Observer, Labour

Places: UK

More episodes of The Slow Newscast

• SNC Extra: The Henry Nowak case · June 4, 2026 · 22 min
• On trial: oil and war crimes · June 2, 2026 · 51 min
• Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark: What does the future of AI look like? · May 28, 2026 · 32 min
• 'Social media is killing our kids' · May 26, 2026 · 39 min
• Doped Up! · May 19, 2026 · 48 min
• Nigel Farage and the five million pound gift: what's wrong with that? · May 14, 2026 · 22 min

Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the The Slow Newscast podcast page.