Henry Zeffman
speaker
1,893 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 13 Sep
Henry Zeffman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He said he would be keeping his mouth shut as an ex-prime minister, offering advice in private only if it's asked for.
I wondered if that was a bit of a jab at Tony Blair as well as others.
But look...
Keir Starmer casting himself almost as a kind of transitional figure, taking the Labour Party from wilderness to government on which someone else can build.
Let's be clear, that is not how he envisaged himself, not even that long ago.
A decade of national renewal is rather different to opposition years plus two years in government, leaving the country, as he argued, in a slightly better position.
If he has, I didn't get it from that interview.
I think he's come up with an answer for himself as much as anyone about why Labour MPs have got rid of him.
And that is a formulation that he kept returning to.
He sort of gestured at in that resignation speech outside Downing Street, which is they are asking a different question now.
The question was who can pick the Labour Party off the floor.
The question now is who can win the next election.
But I said to him,
do you think they're wrong that you can't win the next election?
And I think you can say that implicit in his answer is yes, he does think they're wrong.
And some Labour MPs, predominantly though not exclusively on the left of the Labour Party, would argue that that is a problem that's been baked into his leadership right back to the start, right back to 2020.
Because he says twice in this interview, by the way, and he's not quite said this in these terms before, that he saved the Labour Party.
And a lot of his colleagues will agree with that.
But some will say, well, yes, in terms of what he described as the moral stain of antisemitism.
But in terms of providing the Labour Party with a governing project, with a meaning, a purpose, social democracy for the sort of third decade of the 21st century.
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