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‘Intensely unpopular’: Was Keir Starmer doomed from the start? | Electoral Dysfunction
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44:22Now PlayingBeth Rigby and Harriet Harman dive into what went wrong for Sir Keir Starmer – and why the public turned against him so quickly.
And Harriet asks if the Labour party might, in retrospect, have been able to ride out those disastrous local election results without changing its leader.
Plus – why has the Labour party waited so long for a female leader, and is a woman-only shortlist the answer?
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