Archie Bland
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226 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 13 Jul
Archie Bland’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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about that one of them is does he have sufficient support to raise a challenge to keir starmer he would need 81 mps and it's not clear that he has that yeah another is is it being outsourced to his allies because he doesn't really intend to do it or doesn't quite know whether he's definitely going to do it yet this story has taken a lot of twists and turns so far and there are probably more to come so watch the space and even by the time you hear this there may have been more that's happened yeah
Yeah, you know, I don't think it's ideal for Streeting to go now because he's worried that it looks opportunistic.
He doesn't want to be the first one out of the blocks on this, but he may feel that he doesn't have an opportunity if he's not the first one out of the blocks because of the way things are going.
He may feel, as you say, that it's now or never.
As far as his allies go...
Another of them, Peter Kyle, who said that he couldn't possibly be planning a leadership bid because they went to the Devil Wears Prada 2 together a few days ago.
Very important facts.
Absolutely.
He came out in support of Keir Starmer.
So it's quite hard to have comprehensive readings of these things from the tea leaves that are swilling around at the moment.
But, you know, it does look more and more like this is really going to happen now.
And I think Streeting will probably feel that he is far from in an ideal position to do it, but he has to get on with it.
Yeah.
And I think there is a kind of a policy related aspect to this.
And it's not just a question of the personalities involved.
When you look at this slate of bills and the King's speech, the kind of way that they've sought to present it is now we're really delivering.
We're two years into our programme for government by the end of this.
And
we're going to show you that we're changing the country.
When you actually look at this speech, it's not obvious what in here is going to have that kind of substantive impact on the way that people feel about a Labour government.
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