Morgan McSweeney

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678 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 2 Jul

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Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · What went wrong for Starmer: Morgan McSweeney gives his side of the story · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

It was the fact that he was being expected to do something very unusual.

work forty t forty five to fifty days in a row.

Be on telly every single one of those days.

Be T V presentable every single minute of every single one of those days.

So it's not just that it was some nice pair of glasses.

It was probably half a dozen or more pairs of glasses.

Because w if you lost a pair of glasses

And couldn't make the BBC debate, or couldn't make your press conference, and the c and and Jill Cutbutson, who was the campaign manager on the road, said to me, Oh, we're wandering around boots trying to find a pair of glasses for the boss.

I'd said, Why why didn't we just buy a spare pair?

So you didn't meet the bottom.

You know what I'm thinking when you sit there is

Yeah.

There's no question it dam it there's no question it damaged us.

But at the same time I would advise any campaign to have a wardrop budget for their candidate for Prime Minister.

I think it's just a perfectly sensible way of managing your campaign.

Yeah, uh although I think

I think

You g gotta be careful about that as well, because my view is that you want politicians to listen and to reflect and if they're getting it wrong to change their position.

And I don't think it's right to say that politicians should never U turn.

that when a policy isn't quite working, or if they've said something that offended people they didn't mean to offend, then they should apologise.

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