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Ainsley for BBC Today Podcast: Starmer’s ‘black holes’: What will fill them?

  • August 30, 2024
  • Claire Ainsley
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“Things will get worse before they get better.” That was the gloomy warning given by Keir Starmer this week, in his first major speech since becoming prime minister.

Labour have previously blamed the Tories for the ‘economic black hole’ they say they’ve found in the public finances since taking office. But what did Starmer mean when he referred to a ‘societal black hole’ left by his predecessors? And if there are cracks in British society, how does the government fix them?

Amol and Nick are joined by Starmer’s former director of policy and expert on the working class Claire Ainsley – now a director at the center-left thinktank, the Progressive Policy Institute.

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