Keir Starmer has kept more or less the same Cabinet but given most of them new jobs. Will it work as Reform UK soars in the polls?
Rock & Roll Politics is live in the main concert hall at Kings Place on Thursday September 25th at the end of the Labour Party Conference week! Tickets available here. https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/words/steve-richards-presents-rock-n-roll-politics-6/
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Will Starmer's reset make a difference?
With Labour languishing in the polls, Keir Starmer has reshuffled his top team… yet again. His leadership has been punctuated by changes in senior personnel, so does that tell us more about him or them?
My book on Tony Blair is published next Thursday. You can pre-order it here.
Rock & Roll Politics is live at Kings Place on Thursday September 25th at the end of the Labour Party Conference week!
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Written and presented by Steve Richards.
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Rock & Roll Politics Live at the Edinburgh Festival
Here’s a recording of the final show at this year’s festival, where there was a different show every day. The final one looked ahead via four political figures, but many other themes and characters were explored over the fourteen shows. It was great seeing so many of the co-operative in Edinburgh!
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What's been happening at the Edinburgh Festival?
The run of Rock & Roll Politics shows is in full swing, with host Steve Richards delivering a different show each day.
Here's an update for the co-operative on the various themes and the audience predictions, plus questions on the political drama being played out in Wales, and much more.
Rock & Roll Politics is live at the Edinburgh Festival right now, with a different show every day. Tickets here.
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For all the storms, is Labour heading for a second term?
The Labour government has endured a traumatic first year on many fronts, but its opponents are in different ways extremely vulnerable. If its opponents cannot win next time Labour will secure a second term, yet the mood music suggests a government in near fatal trouble...
Rock & Roll Politics is live at the Edinburgh Festival with a different show each day. Tickets available here.
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Based on his live one-man show Rock & Roll Politics, the broadcaster and author Steve Richards takes a weekly behind-the-scenes tour of UK politics and the media that shapes the way we view the epic political dramas. The future is ridiculously unpredictable and the past is so easy to misread. Subscribe to your weekly guide through seismic times.