Phil Burton-Cartledge joins PTO to discuss the first few weeks of Keir Starmer's Labour government. We talked about why Phil characterises the Starmer project as a case of 'authoritarian modernisation', the relationship between Labour and the unions, and why the government seems so sanguine about the crisis in higher education. We also talked about Starmer's response to the recent racist and Islamophobic attacks in England and Northern Ireland.