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Morgan Mcsweeney

Morgan Mcsweeney

Former Downing Street Chief of Staff

Jul 2, 2026

5:15
... that you were kind of single-mindedly focused on victory rather than on governing.
5:21
Yeah, the time in opposition went quickly, and you're right.
5:24
When Keir became leader in 2020, one of the hardest things to do was to persuade people that we could win.
5:31
Uh, and the, and the narrative and the analysis was that it would take us a very, very long time.
5:37
It would take at least two terms, and that Labour couldn't win the next election, which made it difficult to raise money.
5:42
It made it difficult to recruit staff.
5:44
It made it difficult to get people to be focused on the voters that we needed to win an election.

6 MINS LATER

11:23
He's not wrong in that, is he?

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