“There’s no way – our songs and politics, never again.”
Sir Keir Starmer has brushed off a snub from the Northern Irish pop group behind New Labour’s victory anthem Things Will Only Get Better, saying “we’re not in 1997”.
Asked about the group’s stance at Labour’s campaign bus launch in Uxbridge on Saturday, Sir Keir told LBC radio: “Well, look, we’re not in 1997. We’re in 2024. The choice before the country is absolutely stark. “You question, are we just some sort of protest song on a speaker down at the end of a street? It’s like some very odd piece of gravity that you just can’t escape.”
Mackenzie, who spoke to LBC from his home in the Midlands, said: “I don’t think politics and music should be linked. When asked what they would say if they had been approached by Sir Keir with a request to use a song, Mackenzie told LBC: “This is a change of guard, I don’t see this as an election. It’s just a change of guard, someone handing the baton on.”
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