“Brutal and efficient” - should Starmer be a bit more Carney?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Mark Carney’s election win in Canada has shown what a potent political force Trump can be - to those campaigning against his economic bullying. But could it have wider implications at home for Keir Starmer? Will the PM now feel more comfortable prioritising a trade deal with the EU over the US? And what does having an ally on America's border mean for the way the UK Government now deals with Trump?
Jon's been at an election watch party and is now headed to Detroit across the border - as Donald Trump marks his 100 days in office.
Later, Amazon vs Trump: why, according to the White House, it’s a "hostile act" for the consumer giant to tell its customers the truth about tariffs.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.3 | We have a very significant declaration to make. |
| 0:14.2 | This is looking to be a Mark Carney, liberal government. |
| 0:18.1 | There is a live shot of Liberal Party headquarters in Ottawa. |
| 0:25.8 | America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country. Never. But these are not, |
| 0:36.9 | these are not idle threats. |
| 0:39.9 | President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us. |
| 0:45.8 | That will never, that will never, ever happen. |
| 0:51.3 | That was Mark Carney at his victory rally last night in this extraordinary turnaround election. |
| 0:59.1 | He has won by standing up to Donald Trump, by taking the fight to Donald Trump, by not being |
| 1:05.5 | bullied by Donald Trump. |
| 1:07.5 | He's a friend of Europe. |
| 1:09.0 | He's an ally of Stama. |
| 1:10.1 | So will this now change how Britain starts to deal |
| 1:14.1 | with Donald Trump? Welcome to the newsagents. The Newsagents. It's John in Toronto. And it's Emily at |
| 1:24.7 | Newsagents HQ. And it's the election that really was written off all until about three months ago. |
| 1:33.5 | In fact, until Trump came to power. |
| 1:36.2 | And just seeing Mark Carney stand there in the early hours in Ottawa declaring victory |
| 1:41.7 | has not only, I guess, re-energized Canada and Canadian nationalism and how |
| 1:46.7 | Canada sees itself, but has also sent out kind of bat signals across the Atlantic to where we |
| 1:54.6 | are. And the questions, I guess, that are now arising from this is, what will Carney's approach to Trump be? And is it |
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