Interview with Dr Steve McCabe
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00:00This is the most historic election since the Second World War, insofar as the economic
00:07situation that the Labour Party have inherited is dreadful. Now of course, as we know, Labour
00:11have won a pretty big majority, not quite as big as some polls have indicated, but mainly
00:18because of course the Conservative Party have basically self-destructed and of course the
00:23consequences of this are, as I say, we've got a party and a government and the opposition
00:29is going to spend a lot of time trying to work out where it goes from here. But of course
00:33the real joker, if you like, in this particular pack is the Reform Party under Nigel Farage,
00:40who his eighth time is now an MP with three other comrades. But in the sense that what
00:45he is going to be trying to do is to use that influence in Parliament to really push forward
00:51his agenda, because of course having got 15 plus percent of the vote, he wants to build
00:57upon that. And of course he's successfully undermined the Conservative Party and he's
01:02said during the night, I'm coming for the Labour Party. So I think the chaos that we've
01:06seen in recent years is going to continue. Basically we want stability and economic prosperity
01:12and everything that goes with it. Starmer's got to watch his back.
01:17Four million votes for reform, four seats. Does our voting system need to change?
01:23Well undoubtedly there is a sort of argument that proportional representation will deal
01:28with that. And quite clearly, this has always been the argument of parties like the Liberal
01:33Democrats, who of course attract a fair number of votes, but have never got what they felt
01:38is a true representation of the people that vote for them. So quite clearly there will
01:43be a push of reform to get proportional representation. What are the chances of Labour agreeing to
01:49that? I think it's probably zero. Why would they allow that? Because they know in five
01:53years' time they're going to be facing the electorate again and there's a great danger
01:56that sort of reform could be in power.