George Parker

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The Pat Kenny Show · Is Kier Starmer on the precipice? · 9 May 2026 podcast

Do you really want to go back there?

that's holding them back.

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.

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.

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

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

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

So what is the core issue in these areas where they lost most soundly?

Is it immigration?

No, I think immigration is a sort of lightning rod for other problems.

Look, I mean, the real truth of the matter is that, and I spent some time in Wigan actually not very long ago, is that these are places which, you know, down on their luck, people have been voting for change, something to make things better for the best part of 20 years since the financial crash.

But as we know, the economy's barely moved in the last 20 years.

Living standards have got worse.

Public services have got worse.

Town centres have closed down.

And I think what happened there was that in 2024, at the last general election, people thought, well, last we got rid of the evil Tories, boo hiss, the Labour Party here, now surely something's going to change.

And nothing's changed.

And in fact, there's a sort of view that settled very quickly that Keir Starmer was just more of the same.

And that frustration is curdled into real anger and in some cases real hatred towards Keir Starmer, which, you know, I think looking at it from the outside, you might think it's slightly surprising.

I find it slightly surprising.

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