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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: The Big Risks for Labour Part 1 – Thames Water goes bust, councils collapse, public pay crisis
Description: A new Labour government could be thrown into chaos by any one of six potential crises, each identified in a dossier of dire warnings prepared by Keir Starmer’s chief of staff Sue Gray. What’s in this critical document, which was quickly nicknamed “Sue’s shit list”? Today journalist Jonn Elledge takes Andrew Harrison through three of them: the possible £15bn bankruptcy of Thames Water, the looming collapse of one or more local authorities, and public pay running out of control.In Part 2 tomorrow, Ros Taylor explains what happens to Labour if the prisons crisis boils over, the N...