Lessons in Power: Poverty w/ Carey Oppenheim
Episode 5 - Carey Oppenheim Michael and Mems to discuss New Labour's pledge to eradicate poverty.
A key issue in Labour's 2024 general election campaign was the conflict between the moral imperative to end child poverty and the party's stringent fiscal rules. The debate over whether Starmer's new government will end the two-child limit in Universal Credit is already a live issue during his first period as Prime Minister.
Carey Oppenheim, now an independent consultant on early years policy and adviser to the Nuffield Foundation, was Special Advisor to Tony Blair in the Number 10 Policy Unit from 2000 to 2005, working on employment policy, social security, childcare and poverty. She joins Michael and Mems to discuss New Labour's pledge to eradicate poverty, the Sure Start initiative, the challenges of building institutions that last beyond particular governments, reimagining social security, and the legacy of the minimum wage.
Lessons in Power is a SPERI Presents... podcast. Professor Michael Jacobs and Mems Ayinla interview ministers and advisors from the New Labour administration (1997-2010) to tease out lessons on a range of issues for Keir Starmer’s newly formed Labour government.
Credits
- Chris Saltmarsh, Department of Politics and International Relations
- Remi Edwards, SPERI
- Frank Maracchione, Department of Politics and International Relations
- Emma Mahoney, School of Geography and Planning
- Dillon Wamsley, SPERI
- Andrew Hindmoor, Department of Politics and International Relations and SPERI
- Michael Jacobs, Department of Politics and International Relations and SPERI
- Mems Ayinla, Director of Student Influence at Sheffield Students' Union.
- David Aragón, tech support
- Andy Gambino, music and audio
- Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash
