Where the Streets has no shame
5/14/20261 hr 4 min
• Podmasters is 10 years old! Get an extra 10% off a year’s Patreon backing. Broadcasting from the middle of the Labour chaos vortex, we look how things stand after the Streeting-Starmer confrontation at No.10 – was it a 17-minute staring contest? – and whether the Health Secretary has the support within Labour to win… if he stands. And who is Wes Streeting anyway? What does he actually stand for? Our panel share their experiences of “the man you can’t libel, because he has no vices.” Plus: Zack Polanski houseboat council tax evasion imbroglio! And in the Extra Bit: There’s a new Beatles museum in London… not Liverpool. So where else deserves a museum in a slightly unexpected location? • Questions for But Your Emails? Thoughts? Comments? Email us at ogwn@podmasters.co.uk. ESCAPE ROUTES • Seth enjoyed the English Touring Opera’s production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers • Marie has been binge-watching Rivals on Disney+ • Hannah went to the West End to watch David Hare’s Teeth’n’Smiles • Zoë has been watching Half-Man, Richard Gadd’s follow-up to Baby Reindeer www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Zoë Grünewald with Hannah Fearn, Marie Le Conte and Seth Thévoz. Produced by James Liddell. Audio Production by Tom Taylor. Art direction: James Parrett. Theme tune by Tom Taylor and Simon Williams. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsSeth Thévoz· Panelist0:00
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Zoë Grünewald· Host0:17
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to Oh God, What Now?, the politics podcast that is personally begging Wes Streeting to wait until we finish recording before he does anything stupid. I'm Zoe Grunewald. On today's show, sleeves rolled up, top button undone, designer glasses polished. Keir Starmer strode up to the podium looking like a man who absolutely does not need a leaving do, thank you very much. In a defiant address to the nation, he insisted he was staying put in Number 10, but his party had other ideas. What started as a trickle of resignation calls quickly became a torrent. With cabinet ministers now publicly calling for Starmer to set a timetable for his departure, it really felt like the jig was up. But then a reprieve. One hundred loyal MPs signed a statement backing the PM. Key cabinet ministers stayed put. Andy Burnham was unable to clear the insurmountable hurdle of finding a parliamentary seat, and Wes Streeting appeared to chicken out at the very last moment. But by the time you hear this, that might have changed. We're recording this as events are still unfolding, and the question of whether Streeting is