Are Britain's 'Brexit Years’ Over?
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4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Today, Laura and Paddy are joined by correspondent Joe Pike to go through the biggest stories of the day.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has called for a stronger, bolder Europe, and deeper links between the UK and the EU. He told world leadersat the Munich Security Conference “we are not the Britain of the Brexit years any more,” and Europe “must be ready to fight”.
We also look at a story about a think tank, Labour Together, which helped labour win in the General Election. They are accused of paying a PR firm to investigate the personal details of a journalist. Labour Together says its supporting an investigation.
And, Laura’s been speaking to Dr Hilary Cass, the author of a major review into the treatment of children and young people questioning their gender. On Laura’s Sunday show, Cass says children have been "weaponised" by both sides of a toxic debate about transgender rights.
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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. The presenters were Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell. It was made by Chris Flynn with Kris Jalowiecki. The social producer was Gabriel Purcell-Davies. The technical producer was Ben Andrews. The weekend series producer is Chris Flynn. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | You're looking at me strangely, Patrick. |
| 0:08.0 | Because how do we sum up Sunday's journalism, the best of broadcasts, the best of print, the best of online? |
| 0:15.0 | So we'll try it in three words. |
| 0:17.0 | War? |
| 0:19.0 | Labour. |
| 0:20.0 | That works in two different ways, doesn't it? |
| 0:23.7 | And Andrew. |
| 0:25.2 | There we go. We did it. Well done. |
| 0:27.4 | So on war, Kirstehm has been at the Munich Security Conference. |
| 0:30.4 | And he says we should be ready for war, which sounds quite an alarming thing to say to the country. |
| 0:35.3 | So we'll hear today what the Foreign Secretary tells us that he actually meant. |
| 0:39.9 | On Labour. |
| 0:41.9 | Labour, there is still behind closed words, arguing amongst itself about whether or not the Prime Minister is the right man for the job. |
| 0:49.0 | And there are various bits of jockeying for a position. |
| 0:51.7 | Yes, but the Defence Secretary mentioned for the first time. |
| 0:55.3 | Yeah, that's been knocking around a bit. |
| 0:57.2 | But that links war and politics and error in Labour, doesn't it? |
| 1:01.0 | We're making all sorts of links here. |
| 1:02.4 | And there's also a story about Labour together, a lobby group to get them all elected. |
| 1:07.4 | Yes, getting into a bit of a pickle over what appears to be, according to the Sunday |
| 1:13.8 | Times, some rather unorthodox behaviour. And there are fresh claims about Andrew's time when he |
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