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George Parker

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
209 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Pat Kenny Show
Is Kier Starmer on the precipice?

But we've had David Cameron.

The Pat Kenny Show
Is Kier Starmer on the precipice?

We've had Theresa May.

The Pat Kenny Show
Is Kier Starmer on the precipice?

We've had Boris Johnson.

The Pat Kenny Show
Is Kier Starmer on the precipice?

We've had Liz Truss.

The Pat Kenny Show
Is Kier Starmer on the precipice?

We've had Rishi Sunak.

The Pat Kenny Show
Is Kier Starmer on the precipice?

And now we've had Keir Starmer.

The Pat Kenny Show
Is Kier Starmer on the precipice?

So that's since 2015.

The Pat Kenny Show
Is Kier Starmer on the precipice?

That's the last 10 years.

The Pat Kenny Show
Is Kier Starmer on the precipice?

So that would be six, and we'd be going for a seventh if Star Wars was to be removed.

The Pat Kenny Show
Is Kier Starmer on the precipice?

Yeah, it's starting to look a bit like the manager's chair at Chelsea Football Club, to be honest, Pat.

The Pat Kenny Show
Is Kier Starmer on the precipice?

We are becoming the kind of Italy of... Well, Italy, of course, now is a stable government.

The Pat Kenny Show
Is Kier Starmer on the precipice?

We're becoming what Italy used to be.

The Pat Kenny Show
Is Kier Starmer on the precipice?

And I think that's one of the things that's holding some Labour MPs back, the idea that we've just been through the chaos of the dying days of the Conservative administration.

The Pat Kenny Show
Is Kier Starmer on the precipice?

Do you really want to go back there?

The Pat Kenny Show
Is Kier Starmer on the precipice?

that's holding them back.

The Pat Kenny Show
Is Kier Starmer on the precipice?

They also appreciate that there's an international crisis underway that Keir Starmer's deemed to have handled reasonably well, to be fair to Keir Starmer.

The Pat Kenny Show
Is Kier Starmer on the precipice?

But the thing that's egging them forward is the fact they look at the situation in their backyards and think, my job's up for, my job's going to be gone in a couple of years' time when there's a general election.

The Pat Kenny Show
Is Kier Starmer on the precipice?

To give you an example, Lisa Nandy, who's the culture secretary, she's the MP for Wigan,

The Pat Kenny Show
Is Kier Starmer on the precipice?

The Labour Party lost every single one of the 20-odd seats it was defending in Wigan to Reform UK.

The Pat Kenny Show
Is Kier Starmer on the precipice?

So you can see that there's an awful lot of nervousness and angst around the Labour Party this morning.