Emily Maitlis
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4,121 appearances
30 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 25 Jun
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Turned its back on him.
Look, there's a moment when you write a speech and the first version of it is the the fuck you speech, quite frankly, where you say what's really on your mind and what you really think and how hurt you feel and how humiliated you feel.
And then the good friends and hopefully spouses next to you say, yeah, you've got that off your chest.
Rip that up, put it in a drawer and go and give the dignified speech that you will be happy with when it's replayed endlessly on a loop.
in the days weeks months and years to come and so I think that's the version that you got from Keir Starmer today I don't think he has let go of what he genuinely believes have been his achievements in office it reminded me a little bit of that do you remember the whole debate about the gold dress and the blue dress where you see very different things
And the speech that Starmer wrote was the gold dress where he could list what he'd done to waiting lists, what he'd done to immigration, what he'd done to asylum hotels, what he'd done to relations with Europe, to relations arguably with America as well.
And I think he does see these as actual tangible achievements, lifting, you know, half a million children out of poverty.
He hails now as one of the big achievements of his government now.
slightly skirting over the fact that obviously that wasn't what he was originally going to do, lifting the cap on the two child benefit, etc.
And that a lot of people will look at his list and say, you don't realise how close you've come to putting my business into recession, how close you've come to making it impossible for me to hire new workers or impossible to vest.
But in a sense, what he is doing today is having to paint the best possible picture of the two years that he's been in office.
And to the point about his position changing, I mean, yeah, I think you're right, Lewis.
Fundamentally, a position only holds for as long as it can hold when everyone around you is telling you that the ground beneath your feet has gone.
So on Saturday night, Friday, Saturday, we were understanding that those conversations were going on.
And I think one by one, the skittles were falling.
And it sounds like when it got to, you know, Yvette Cooper, amongst others, his foreign secretary, he was saying, sorry, it's over now.
There were certain key people, Lord Faulkner, Charlie Faulkner was basically saying it's over, it's done very publicly.
And I guess once you've had enough of those conversations, whatever you inwardly think you can do, however strong the fight is in you to keep going,
If there's no army behind you, if there's no one backing you, then there isn't a strategic, a viable way forward.
And I think it was Rachel Sylvester for The Observer who went first Saturday night, wrote the piece that we all sort of, you know, opened late on, a couple of pisco sours down, to be honest, going...
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