The Starmer Disaster

Culture, Power, Politics » Podcast · Oct 13, 2025 · 1h 40m

A recording of our online seminar with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Mark Perryman, Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert, recorded October 8th 2025

We ask:

How has it all gone so wrong for a government elected with one of the largest peacetime majorities on record?

How have we got here?

Do Starmer and his political allies even want to win another election?

What would it take for them to do so, and is there any chance of them doing it?

Does all hope of preventing the election of a Reform government now lie outside the Labour Party?

In this free online seminar, 3 contributors to the recent book The…