{"id":7143,"date":"2026-08-18T11:20:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T11:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aibih.org\/?p=7143"},"modified":"2026-08-18T16:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:02:17","slug":"lessons-from-no-10-when-government-comms-go-badly-wrong-lee-cain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aibih.org\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/lessons-from-no-10-when-government-comms-go-badly-wrong-lee-cain\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from No 10: When government comms go badly wrong | Lee Cain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a comms problem\u201d is the diagnosis politicians, pundits and the public often reach for whenever a prime minister flounders. It was arguably Keir Starmer\u2019s biggest undoing. From the beginning, he failed to articulate what kind of prime minister he would be. In the end, nobody really knew what he thought about anything. For today\u2019s guest Lee Cain, Starmer was a \u201cpolitical vacuum\u201d \u2013 but he believes his successor Andy Burnham is ripe with rhetorical promise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a comms problem\u201d is the diagnosis politicians, pundits and the public often reach for whenever a prime minister flounders. It was arguably Keir Starmer\u2019s biggest undoing. From the beginning, he failed to articulate what kind of prime minister he would be. In the end, nobody really knew what he&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aibih.org\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/lessons-from-no-10-when-government-comms-go-badly-wrong-lee-cain\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7144,"href":"http:\/\/www.aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143\/revisions\/7144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}