Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer resigns
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
After months of growing pressure off the back of crushing local election results, Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced his resignation. By stepping down, he clears the way for the UK to get its seventh prime minister in a decade. The country's latest MP, the former Manchester mayor Andy Burnham, has said that he will stand in any contest for the top job.
Also: schools close across France as Europe suffers another record heatwave. Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo confirm more than 1,000 cases of Ebola. We look back at the career of Alan Greenspan, the longtime US Federal Reserve chief who presided over a period of prosperity but was later criticised for failing to prevent the 2008 financial crisis. And 40 years after Diego Maradona's controversial 'Hand of God' goal against England, we hear from someone who witnessed it firsthand in Mexico's Azteca Stadium.
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Photo: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks as he announces the timeline for his resignation, outside 10 Downing Street, in London, Britain, June 22, 2026. Credit: Photo by REUTERS/Jaimi Joy
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| 0:39.5 | The British Prime Minister Kirstama resigns just two years after his landslide election victory. |
| 0:46.7 | Europe suffers another record heat wave with temperatures forecast to go well over 40 degrees Celsius. |
| 0:54.5 | The number of Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo passes 1,000. |
| 1:02.3 | Also in this podcast? |
| 1:05.0 | Because it is very difficult for not to be seen by two people, the referee and the linesmen. |
| 1:10.5 | So that's why I said it was the hand of copper. |
| 1:13.9 | 40 years since football legend Diego Maradona's controversial World Cup goal, |
| 1:19.0 | we speak to someone who was at that match. |
| 1:25.7 | For the fourth time in four years, a British Prime Minister has announced their resignation |
| 1:31.3 | while standing at a lectern in front of No. 10 Downing Street. |
| 1:35.9 | Nearly two years after his landslide election victory, Kirstama, having repeatedly said he would not stand down, |
| 1:42.8 | announced that he would be going after all, |
| 1:45.4 | following a series of scandals and blunders that have seen his popularity plummet. |
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