Paul Holden

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Pod Save the UK · McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson · 12 Feb 2026 podcast

It all actually makes a huge amount of sense if you understand its political origins.

It makes a huge amount of sense if you understand where it actually comes from, what it actually is.

Well, so it's not clear that he would have known, for example, that they weren't reporting their money at the time.

I mean, I think that Starman knew 100% that his pitch to the membership wasn't going to be what he delivered.

Sure.

Absolutely.

No doubt about that.

And we know that not just out of supposition and because we could see what he does afterwards.

But because the people in his membership team are telling people, they're telling journalists behind the scenes, people undervalue how left-wing he presented himself in that election.

He represented himself as a radical eco-socialist and inheritor of the Corbynite tradition.

And part of the deep despair the public finds itself in is that being promising is different to the Tories.

after 14 years of brutal austerity, we have something that looks almost exactly like the Tories.

There's two enormous questions that I'll try to deal with very quickly.

Great.

You have 55 words, 30 seconds.

We'd love to clip it up to the ground.

So I think this idea that they are sort of deep blue labour ideological adherence is a slight red herring.

I'm not convinced that McSweeney and the people around him have a coherent ideology, actually.

I think they have a coherent political methodology and that's something quite different.

And the political methodology is actually very simple.

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