Willie Howard

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Liveline · "People can look out their front window and see a sense of decline..." · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

And then a few months down the line changed his mind and brought in the policy himself.

And it's this type of kind of inconsistency and not having any sort of wider vision of making this country better is what has kind of led to their political demise.

And they are in serious trouble as a party to the point that they may not recover.

I genuinely believe Barnum is the last ditch attempt for that.

You know, I mean, one of the first things that the Labour Party did when they came into power was to remove the winter fuel allowance for the elderly.

Now, you know, the political tradition that underpins the Labour Party is one where we're supposed to support elderly people who've paid into a system all of their lives.

It's not exactly going to enamour you with the common man or woman on the ground to come in and bring it in policy like that.

One that did them lasting damage, to be honest.

We can also talk about the wider system of deindustrialization.

We had Britain's oldest steel plant.

And I think it's just quite telling because you had an area in Port Talbot in Wales, and it was based, there was a union official at the time, where the plant was about to close down, 1,500 skilled jobs about to go to the wall.

Britain would have been left the only country in the G20 unable to make its own steel.

The union I was with at the time begged Starmer to intervene, begged the government to invest in that, to invest in British industry, to invest in British skills, and we were just told, ah, no, it's not what we do, sorry, you know, and we've got a massive majority, so we're doing something right.

And unfortunately then that's, if you look at the polls in that particular town, which has been a Labour stronghold since parliamentary politics began, Reform are now, I think, probably the most popular party there.

So this type of...

economic system that we have that isn't delivering for the ordinary people is a direct consequence of the rise of reform.

And this isn't just uniquely a British problem either.

This is a problem that we see in America, we see it in France, we're seeing it in Germany right now.

It doesn't begin and end with Brexit.

The likes of Brexit is a symptom of this issue.

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