Keir Starmer must “hit the far right hard” after riots | UK politics | New Statesman podcast

Can Labour find ways to include people “abandoned by Westminster” in a new national story?

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Keir Starmer promised to govern for everyone in the UK regardless of how people voted. In the first few weeks of his premiership, the riots around Britain demonstrated how fractured parts of society have become.

With an inherited immigration backlog, dire economic conditions and unregulated social media, what must the Prime Minister do to heal the UK and restore national unity?

George Eaton and Hannah Barnes discuss on the New Statesman podcast.


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England in Pieces, by Jason Cowley
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Keir Starmer has a chance to dominate the common ground, by George Eaton
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics...

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Labour: riots were “far-right thuggery”
00:22 Labour’s response to riots
06:20 Riots & the economy
09:13 Starmer vs Farage
10:38 “hit the far right hard”

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