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Electoral Dysfunction

Jess Phillips: Starmer Doesn’t Listen

5/15/202648 min

Andy Burnham, Angela Rayner, Wes Streeting - the list of potential names to challenge Keir Starmer is growing but the leadership race is not officially on... yet.

Jess Phillips, who resigned from the government this week, tells Beth why she's backing Wes Streeting in a future race and why Andy Burnham needs to be careful he doesn't look entitled as he searches for a parliamentary seat. She also gives a devastating verdict on the prime minister, telling Beth he 'finds it hard to listen" in her first interview since resigning.

Plus, as one Labour MP resigns in Makerfield so Andy Burnham can stand - can the 'King of the North' win a by-election? Or is he gambling his job on a seat he can't win?

And can Keir Starmer keep a lid on it all?

Got a question for the burner phone? WhatsApp 07934 200 444 or email electoraldysfunction@sky.uk.

And if you didn't know, you can also watch Beth, Ruth and Harriet on YouTube.

Clips

The straw that broke it
“Analog government, digital world”
Ban under-16s from social media
“Everyone’s plotting—take responsibility”
Can Starmer continue?
Why she didn’t call No.10

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Sam Coates0:01

    [upbeat music] Sky News, the full story first.

  2. Ruth Davidson· Host0:05

    [upbeat music] He lacks and his operation lacks the drive to get anything done with the gusto that is needed.

  3. Beth Rigby· Host0:21

    [upbeat music] Pick your metaphor. The dam has burst, horse has bolted, the genie's out of the bottle. I mean, something- I've actually used all of those today.

  4. Ruth Davidson· Host0:31

    [upbeat music] The Prime Minister's team have done an amazing job of making this somehow Wes Streeting's fault.

  5. Beth Rigby· Host0:36

    Hello, and welcome to Electoral Dysfunction with me, Beth Rigby.

  6. Ruth Davidson· Host0:43

    Me, Ruth Davidson.

  7. Harriet Harman· Host0:44

    And me, Harriet Harman.

  8. Beth Rigby· Host0:46

    Now, it's been a mega week in politics, a mega week for memes. I have to say how much joy it's brought me seeing all the edits online of me being tethered to my broadcasting spot with a microphone, which stopped me interviewing James Murray outside Downing Street. I spilt two coffees over the pavement, and I became a comedy character in the thick of it. I didn't mean to. It wasn't intentional. Karen messaged the burner phone likening the mic to a cattle prod. We had a WhatsApp from Joseph saying I was serving high camp. I quite liked that one, actually. [laughs] And then Lottie, Lottie made a Beth Rigby mega mix, uh, of me in all political

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