New Labour Government: How are they doing, one month on?

How is Britain responding to the new government?

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00:00What we're sort of getting loud and clear is that this is going to be a very different

00:06administration from the sort of the turbulent years under Johnson and across the sort of

00:10the seven weeks under Liz Truss.

00:12And Richie Sunak, who's, you know, he didn't make it for two years, was quite clearly sort

00:16of dealing with lots of embedded problems.

00:19So there is a desire to sort of to, as I say, to sort of change, to sort of to create sort

00:24of better opportunities and prosperity.

00:26And indeed, of course, the sort of great British energy, which has just been announced by the

00:29government, that's something for the future.

00:32The only concern I do have, dare I sort of say, is that it's going to take a lot of time

00:35to sort of bed in.

00:36And I think the sort of the electorate are pretty sort of fickle.

00:39And if they don't sort of feel there's change happening immediately, and by that I sort

00:43of mean within sort of perhaps sort of six months, they might start to get twitchy because,

00:47of course, that's the nature of the opinion polls.

00:49So far, so good.

00:50Of course, the sort of the one big problem that Labour have had was the sort of the child

00:54benefit, which, of course, was an SNP amendment.

00:57And dare I sort of say it, they sort of had a revolt on that one of seven other MPs.

01:02As I say, there is such expectation that the country is going to change for the better.

01:06And indeed, the latest economic news is all very good.

01:09So Labour have sort of been lucky thus far.

01:11But dare I say it, that's how sort of new Labour under Tony Blair started.

01:14But of course, as we sort of know, we've got the sort of the war in Ukraine, which, of

01:19course, is still creating sort of a lot of tension.

01:22And indeed, I sort of, yeah, the view is that that's going to sort of rumble on.

01:25And it may cause another spike in our energy bills.

01:28So who knows?

01:29Maybe Labour will have to sort of intervene in the way that, of course, the Conservatives

01:32had to.

01:33Interestingly, a poll by YouGov found that whilst four in 10 Brits think positively about

01:40Keir Starmer winning the overall majority, 35% felt, quote, dismayed by the outcome.

01:46I think the sort of Keir Starmer will be a lot more sort of sure-footed about the things

01:50he gets involved in.

01:52Quite clearly, he seems to have sort of grown into the role.

01:54And I suspect that he's enjoying the fact that Labour are back in power after 14 years.