Half a 12 months in the past, the Labour Get together swept into energy with an enormous parliamentary majority and Kier Starmer celebrated by saying that the nation may “get its future again”.
Immediately, Labour are dogged by low approval scores, having upset everybody from environmentalists to pensioners, farmers to small-business homeowners.
And simply final week Reform overtook each the Conservatives and Labour in a ballot of voting intentions — suggesting the general public are already searching for an alternate.
So, why has the general public seemingly turned on the Labour Get together? Ought to they be threatened by the rise of Reform? And the way can the progressive motion push this authorities to create the world we would like?
Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Grace Blakeley, economics commentator and writer of Vulture Capitalism: Company Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Loss of life of Freedom, and David Edgerton, historian and writer of The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: a Twentieth Century Historical past.
Music by A.A Aalto (obtainable: freemusicarchive.org/music/A_A_Aalt…_Of_Discovery/)