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Coco Kahn

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Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

And he's just looking at like, well, inevitably the Conservatives will lose it.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

So if I'm at the right place, right time, I don't really know.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

Well, let's come back to that.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

He ingratiates himself with the Labour Party.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

He finds his blue Labour faction.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

They're all united by this hatred of the left and the grip of socialism or social democracy in the Labour Party.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

And they work out that the thing that's going to be terrible for them is if a

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

Jeremy Corbyn or adjacent soft left government actually gets to power and it's popular with the people.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

Ah, they'll never, it will never work.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

So they seek to ensure that by the time Labour is going to election, that it's a blue Labour mindset at the top.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

And they work

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

on doing this, funded through money that they don't disclose.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

And that is the fraud.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

There's the bit that I am not clear is how they landed on Starmer.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

And does Starmer know about this Blue Labour project that he's being funded?

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

Or is he just a useful idiot to use that phrase?

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

And I would follow up with that because I'm also quite confused.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

Would it be reasonable to say, well, now that McSweeney's gone, that Hydra's had its head cut off.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

That's a bad example.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

Doesn't the Hydra's head come back?