Election special: Starmer moves into Number 10
Political Fix
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🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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As Sir Keir Starmer steps over the threshold of Number 10, FT experts answer audience questions about what to expect from the new Labour government. Will Keir Starmer’s landslide victory lead to lasting change? The FT’s Lucy Fisher is joined by colleagues Stephen Bush, George Parker, Miranda Green and Robert Shrimsley to discuss the Labour landslide and the future of the defeated Tory party
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Presented by Lucy Fisher. Produced by Audrey Tinline with Leah Quinn. Original music by Breen Turner. Mix by Odinn Ingibergsson.The FT’s head of audio is Cheryl Brumley.
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| 0:42.0 | Welcome, I'm Lucy Fisher and this is political fix from the Financial Times. |
| 0:46.0 | After an historic landslide, |
| 0:48.0 | Seckir Starma has now entered 10 Downing Street |
| 0:51.0 | as Labour's Prime Minister. |
| 0:52.0 | But his honeymoon could be short. So what |
| 0:55.3 | will a new Labour government do with its huge mandate? Coming up, we're making available an |
| 1:00.0 | FT-lib webinar in conjunction with the Politics Live newsletter recorded at lunchtime on Friday. |
| 1:05.9 | I was joined by my FT colleagues Stephen Bush, George Parker, Miranda Green and Robert Shrimsley. |
| 1:11.6 | We kicked off with George summing up the state of play just |
| 1:14.7 | after Starmer's speech in Downing Street. I'll do my best Lucy having suffered |
| 1:18.9 | slightly from sleep deprivation and having no sleep since 10 o'clock last night. |
| 1:23.1 | So what's just happened in the fact that in the last hour as we speak |
| 1:26.4 | is that Richisunak has resigned as Prime Minister |
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