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100 days of Starmer

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Politics, Unknown, Daily News, News

41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Sir Keir Starmer has been Labour leader for 100 days, during which he’s had to deal with his own party’s issues as well as offer a response to the government’s handling of the pandemic.


Guest: 

Gabriel Pogrund, Sunday Times politics and investigations reporter.


Host: Manveen Rana. 


Clips used: BBC, LBC, Channel 4 News, Novara Media, Sky News.


Additional music: Komiku (licensed under Creative Commons).



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0:00.0

Today marks a hundred days since Kiestama became the leader of the opposition.

0:09.3

How has he managed the Labour Party so far?

0:12.4

I think he probably wanted people to know that he means what he says and also he acts on it.

0:17.0

He was utterly uncompromising on that one.

0:20.0

As the UK was becoming one of the coronavirus capitals of the world,

0:24.4

did he adopt the right strategy of what he calls constructive opposition,

0:29.6

but some in his party would regard as weakness.

0:35.0

His view is he needs to win the right to be heard and needs to reestablish

0:40.0

labour's authority before taking a baseball back to government and saying that is authority

0:45.0

you're listening to stories of our times

0:49.0

from the Times and the Sunday Times.

0:51.0

I'm Manveen Rana. Today, a hundred days of stama. My support for the police is very, very strong and evidenced in the actions I've,

1:12.3

joint actions I've done with the police.

1:14.4

There's a broader issue here.

1:16.3

The Black Lives Matter movement or moment, if you like, internationally is about reflecting something completely

1:24.1

different. Take me back to a BBC breakfast interview a couple of weeks ago with

1:29.8

Kiestama. So Kiestama was asked about the Black Lives Matter movement.

1:37.0

Gabriel Pogrand is politics and investigations reporter at the Sunday Times.

1:42.1

He told BBC that he thought that the protests were a moment.

1:47.0

He also characterized calls for the police to be

1:53.5

defunded as nonsense.

1:53.1

That's nonsense and nobody should be saying anything about

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