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Jan 2024
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Revisited… Keir Starmer’s Labour: hope o...

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Politics Weekly UK is taking a break. So this week John Harris revisits a conversation with the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee and political reporter Aletha Adu about what a Labour government would look like and why it feels like Keir Starmer has a lot of convincing to do. Help support our independent journalism at <a href="https://www.theguardian. ... Show More
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