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Lessons in a landslide: The Times 1997 team
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Lessons in a landslide: 20 years after New Labour
A Red Box podcast series of interviews with all of the key players in the 1997 campaign, and their fears for the future of the party.
The Times' 1997 lobby journalists Philip Webster, Jill Sherman and James Landale on the battlebuses, spin doctors, chickens, bulldogs and gay lions they found reporting on the campaign train for The Times.
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29:42|Andy Burnham has promised to make Labour MPs feel "happy and fulfilled" by easing party discipline and turning the Whips' Office into something more like an HR department. It's a very different approach to Keir Starmer's leadership - but will it work?Ed Vaizey unpacks the politics of the day with Sarah Ditum and Patrick Kidd.