Andrew Marr: We have misunderstood Keir Starmer | Election 2024 | The New Statesman

Keir Starmer will face hard choices when he becomes Prime Minister - has he done enough to win the vital arguments before the election?

Andrew Marr speaks to Hannah Barnes on the New Statesman podcast.

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[RichardSmith-mshh]

I do not feel that I misunderstood Kier Starmer. What I am seeing is exactly what and who I understood him to be.

[grannye]

No you and Keir Starmer have misunderstood the people! You sit there with your millions and tell other people how you believe they should live and behave!

[alantyndall]

"Quite a lot of people"

The country is not populated solely by your dinner party guests, Andrew.

[paladin]

Hang on. This is the man who, a few weeks ago, was talking about a new era of stability in the UK now Starmer is PM. He's certainly changed his tune.

[mpaul]

Starmer, the man who prefers Davos to Westminster, the man who's appointed Milliband as energy Secretary. Dystopia here we come.

[muttman]

It's never the rich who pay. It's those who worked hard and have a small pot for hard times who will be screwed.

[johntaylor]

The problem is how tax payers money is squandered on migrants and foreign aid, that’s what sickens the British people.

[mr.jamesdavidrobert]

Starmer wants to tackle the division of wealth by making everyone poor.

[ddmp]

It was done in the 70s by Liebour and all the money moved out of the UK

[chizzlemo]

basically Labour will steal from those who have invested and saved, always been that way. Except Keir himself who got special exemption on his pension pot

[DaveCorbey]

Council tax is revalued every year as it goes up by 5% per annum. How much do they think we can pay.

[Wilkins_Micawber]

That's what an echo chamber sounds like. One liberal speaking to another liberal for liberals to hear.

[andrewd]

It’s depressing when we talk about tax because we ignore the elephant in the room. The burden is always shifted on to the people while the multinationals aren’t spoken about.

Shell paid no tax between 2015 and 2021. We paid them £680 million over that time period. They literally made money on their tax bill because of what the government allows them to claim back on. Shell recently broke their 115 year record on profits. This is utterly obscene and not once was this small example of non existent tax policy spoken about in labours run up to winning the election. This is why people have no faith in labour.

[jonnydunn]

That's not how it will work though. The working class to middle class will be worst off, and the free loaders will be laughing there way to benidorm

[martinhambleton]

Kier is not a shaker and mover.
Migrants in hotels and fully public funded.
Redistribution of wealth has never happened in the history of the world.
Governments have made laws to allow theft.
Industry generally takes the wealth and invest elsewhere. The double whammy is that jobs leave the country as well.
Socialism doesn't work and neither does Kier.

[TheYoungVeganUK]

So, his argument is that Starmer is going to rebalance wealth and people won't like it?

[jamessmithson-brrm]

The super rich will leave the country and it will just be those in the middle who get hit yet again… great job Starmer

[za.]

Andrew Marr totally gets Kier wrong... he's going to challenge bugger all. Everything he's done up till now has shown more of the same. He'll do small.cosmetic changes and blame the economy of the Tories for at least his first term. Mark my words.

[stephenskinner]

"I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money" - Thomas Sowell

[karenrobinson]

Its disgusting! Those people earned their money. They can pass it to their children if they wish. How in gods name do people think they are entitled to it. Where did this begging entitlement come from. Im sick of the government and other's thinking they can steal people's money.