Starmer vs the basics of politics
4/29/202616 min
Does Keir Starmer have confidence in Rachel Reeves? Kemi Badenoch pressed the Prime Minister on his Chancellor’s future at PMQs – and he declined to answer, twice. Westminster (and Twitter) is now awash with reshuffle rumours.
No 10 has since issued a denial, but the damage may already be done, raising a familiar question: is Keir Starmer just bad at politics?
With recess looming and Labour braced for a battering at the local elections, Tim Shipman and Noa Hoffman join Megan McElroy to discuss.
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Megan McElroy· Host0:30
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectator's daily politics podcast. I'm Megan McElroy, and I'm joined today by Tim Shipman, our political editor, and Noah Hoffman, our political correspondent. We've had the final PMQs of the parliamentary session. Keir Starmer himself has set the Westminster rumor mill running. Tim, what's he said?
Tim Shipman· Guest0:56
Well, it's what he didn't say that was the issue. If you think back a few months to the time Rachel Reeves burst into tears in the House of Commons, she obviously had some intense stuff going on outside of her political world. But that was initially prompted by someone basically saying, you know, "Do you stand by your chancellor?" And, and Starmer failed to do so. And today, Kemi Badenoch stood up and said, you know, look what's happened over the last year. It's the end of the parliamentary term. Um, everything's gone to pot, essentially, and, you know, you and Rachel Reeves