2026-10-09
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Labour's Last Chance.
The People Shaping Andy Burnham's Grand Plans for Britain by Hethi O'Brien, read by Philip Whitchurch.
In May 2025, when Keir Starmer was still Prime Minister.
Labour politicians, campaigners and journalists gathered at the Ministry of Sound in London
to watch a series of panel talks and presentations illuminated by the lucid glow of club lights.
The day-long event was organised by a campaign group called Compass
and the subjects included child poverty, the Murdoch-owned media and the rise of the radical right.
We felt as though the Labour government was failing
and needed to be pulled into the 21st century, Neil Lawson, the founder of Compass, told me.
The Starmer government's support for the Conservatives' two-child benefit cap, its equivocating stance on Gaza,
and its emulation of far-right rhetoric, crystallised in a speech on immigration, during