100 days of Starmer
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K 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.
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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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