Can Trump and Starmer Have a Special Relationship?
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at the relationship between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
The two men spoke for the first time on Sunday since the return of President Trump to the White House. Whilst both sides were keen to stress the positives, the 45-minute call appears to have focussed on points of agreement not distance. Chris and Adam speak to North America Editor Sarah Smith.
And, is the battle for supremacy in AI starting to really kick off? Shares in major US technology firms have plunged after the rapid rise of a Chinese artificial intelligence firm today. Adam speaks to economics editor Faisal Islam and AI correspondent Marc Cieslak.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, news has reached us at Newscast that the Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, is going to make a guest appearance in Emmerdale as part of their 10,000th episode, which got us thinking, when have there been other great political cameos in things? |
| 0:21.1 | My personal favourite. |
| 0:22.6 | Although does this count as a cameo? |
| 0:23.9 | Because actually he was the star, |
| 0:25.4 | is Tony Blair in the Lauren the School Girl work experience sketch on comic relief. |
| 0:31.4 | Probably around about, I don't know, 2005, it is a masterclass in comic timing. |
| 0:37.6 | Look at my face. |
| 0:38.6 | Right. |
| 0:38.8 | What are you doing? |
| 0:39.4 | Is my face bothered? |
| 0:40.5 | No, one minute. |
| 0:41.5 | Does my face look bothered, though? |
| 0:42.8 | No, are you messing with my mind? |
| 0:44.3 | Face, bothered. |
| 0:45.5 | Top shop, centre parks, trainers, small feet, rich tea, bandages, Ryan, lease, I ain't bothered. |
| 0:51.8 | But you don't even know who the most famous person out of the scene is. |
| 0:55.0 | I don't care, because I ain't bothered. |
| 0:57.1 | But help us expand our repertoire of political cameos. |
| 1:00.9 | And if you can think of any, email them to us, and we will try and track them down. |
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| 1:08.4 | Or you can WhatsApp us on 033-123-9480. But don't do that yet, because the first thing you've got to do is listen to this episode of Newscast. |
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