Peter Walker
speaker
987 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 21 Sep
Peter Walker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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More than peeved, really, they're incredibly worried about this idea that the elections, not just across English councils, to an extent in Scotland, but mainly in Wales, where Labour did really, really badly.
They think it shows that Keir Starmer is not turning things around, that they're losing votes to reform on the right and the Greens on the left.
And they have this really kind of dreadful worry, which Keir Starmer articulates in his speech to an extent, that if Labour messes this up, then the chances are we have a Nigel Farage government going into number 10 in a couple of years' time, or maybe three years' time.
And for a lot of Labour MPs, that worries them enormously.
So if you speak to almost any of them, kind of,
privately they will say something needs to change the question is what and when and to an extent we still are where we are that there's a smallish number of likely leadership contenders so west streeting the most obvious one angela rainer perhaps andy burnham if you can get back into parliament but no one has as yet fired the starting gun so you know we're still in this deadlock really
I mean, it was a decent speech in terms of Keir Starmer's speeches.
It was a probably solid 8 out of 10.
But the sense I got from Labour MPs is that they just wanted something more.
They wanted something different.
It's kind of like, I don't know, like a marriage is on the rocks and one partner keeps on getting things wrong and the other one is saying, God, make a massive gesture.
And Keir Starmer promised a gesture, but it wasn't a holiday to the Maldives.
It was like a 3.99 bunch of roses from the garage down the road.
Well, I quite like supermarket flowers, but anyway.
Anyone listening, that's duly noted.
But I think it was not only the delivery that they wanted, but they wanted some more substance.
Because what a lot of Labour MPs are increasingly realising is that when reform wins seats, particularly in the kind of northern, quote, red wall areas, and also in some of the London councils too, because Labour are losing votes not only to them, but also to the Greens, which is splitting the left vote.
And what a lot of them want is, I mean, they understand the rationale for having a kind of reasonably robust immigration offer.
So reform don't hoover up every single small C conservative vote.
But they want some kind of offering to show to voters who might be tempted to go green, you know, look, you can go with us.
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