Dr. Richie Howard
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171 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 24 Jun
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He embodies a particular type of establishment politics, which is anathema to a certain sway the voter now and has been since then.
that day 10 years ago that we're not going to talk about.
So there's partly that.
I think partly there is something fundamentally uncharismatic about him as a man, which feels unfair and maybe cruel to say, but it's also basically true, right?
The political class in this country have over the course of the past decade, potentially longer, but let's fix it a decade, become very, very, very bad at telling the electorate, like, things aren't going to be nice.
We have lost the ability to hear as a populace, I think, the news that things are not going to be good and there is nothing that we can do about it because there are some very good reasons outside of our control.
It's a very hard position for any politician to be in.
when you also add in the lack of charisma, the fundamental mistrust of his background, etc.
Which, again, from a media relations point of view, and I appreciate it, it's very important to stress this, the failure of Keir Starmer's premiership is not about comms.
It's about politics.
Comms is a very small part of it.
But from a media relations point of view, a load of very, very small things, they all stack up and they feel worse than one big hit.
And so there is a comms issue, isn't there?
There is a comms element to it.
And it will be really interesting to see whether in Keir Starmer's probable departing honours list.
Number 10 and number 10 this morning were, I believe, a little bit more ambivalent about the possibility of whether or not that's going to happen.
Not vote for me again.
So I look forward to seeing Sir Morgan McSweeney in the aftermath of all of this.
Matt?
I mean, this is a little bit of a... still a negative one, but harking back to right at the beginning of his prime ministerial career, if you will...
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