Lucy Tassel
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2,098 appearances
59 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 2d ago
Lucy Tassel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So he had enough to get through the election, but once in government, he couldn't find a way to successfully communicate a lot of the difficult decisions that you have to make when you're in government.
So like within two months of being elected, he's telling the British people, quote, things will get worse economically as he tried to kind of, he said, fix what previous governments had done.
So that's a pretty tough decision.
line to communicate to the public.
Literally, word for word, things will get worse, especially because a song that was used a lot in his campaign and in previous Labor campaigns, the song Things Can Only Get Better.
So two months later, we're saying, no, actually, sorry, things are going to get worse before they can get better.
And he since said he should have tried to give people more hope.
There's also a lot of policies being announced and then walked back, which is pretty toxic to your brand as a politician.
And he also led a cut in social security payments designed to help people with power bills in the winter.
And that was
extremely unpopular, that decision.
Yeah.
And then there are kind of three factors that hit him really hard in the first half of this year.
And I'm calling those A, B and C, the ABCs of how Keir Starmer's political career ended.
Yeah, so we've got A for the appointment of Peter Mandelson, B for Burnham comma Andy.
Sorry, that was a little clunky.
Whatever, walk with me.
I'm with you.
And C is for council elections or Cymrui, which is the Welsh word for Wales.
I think I butchered that pronunciation.
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