Download the episode transcript here.
In the concluding episode of this two-part series, Professor Steven King (Nottingham Trent University) and Professor Glen O’Hara (Oxford Brookes University) discuss what lessons Keir Starmer might learn from the last time Labour was in government.
In this second part, the two discuss:
- Dealing with the 2008 financial crisis.
- How New Labour sought to reform the NHS and if it worked.
- Will Keir Starmer’s Labour be so tough on crime and the causes of crime?
- Are Starmer and Reeves cut from the same cloth as Blair and Brown?
- What successes should we expect to see from Starmer’s government in the long run.
The full transcript of the discussion can be found here.
Glen’s new book, New Labour, New Britain? How the Blair governments reshaped the country is due to come out with Manchester University Press in February 2026. Copies are available to pre-order now via the MUP website.
