Electioncast: Is Keir Starmer on Borrowed Time?
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at what Labour’s pasting in the May elections means for Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
He’s been out in London talking to Chris and insisting he’s not going anywhere but with more and more of his own party calling on him to resign, can he really stay?
Chris joins Laura and Paddy to talk about their conversation and to give his assessment on the results now they’re in
They also look at Starmer’s appointment of former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown as a special envoy on global finance and ask, will it make a difference to voters?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | I think it's my turn to go first because you two have been like beer moths or moths, really. |
| 0:14.4 | He's just kept going and going through the night. |
| 0:17.3 | Are you calling me a behemoth? |
| 0:19.1 | Well, you and Chris, you've just done sterling hours and hours. Thank you. Well, I'm all for the paddy one-man show. Take it away. No, I mean, you've done hours and hours of broadcasting, Chris. Well, there is that. But, you know, this is the kind of time of year where Laura and I and others, you know, just trying to keep on going really because there's so much to talk about isn't there |
| 0:40.3 | is so much intrigue there's so much is the kind of time of year where Laura and I and others, you know, just trying to keep on going, |
| 0:38.7 | really, because there's so much to talk about, isn't there? There's so much intrigue. There's so much, and particularly with this set of elections. There's just so many different storylines, aren't there? There certainly are, and it's election time, and that means that we stay up for a long time. |
| 0:50.9 | Laura gets very excited by her |
| 0:52.4 | flipper. |
| 0:53.6 | I had four |
| 0:54.4 | flippers this year. |
| 0:55.3 | Do you have a cheap |
| 0:56.5 | it's, well, Laura, you can explain your flipper. They're my photo albums that are full of all my alphabetized fun facts about all the different council seats or constituencies if it's a general election flipper. It's like a file of facts. They're old photo albums and you have to get them on a website that sells old things |
| 1:13.3 | because you can't get them in the shops anymore. |
| 1:15.0 | And then you can flick between them without having paper scattered all over the desk |
| 1:19.1 | and then you've lost the one from Tameside or whatever. |
| 1:22.5 | Exactly. |
| 1:22.9 | I love the fact that our youngest newscaster does not know what A, a Philofax is and B, a photo album. |
| 1:30.2 | Should we get on with it? |
| 1:32.6 | This is Saturday's newscast. |
| 1:35.1 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:37.4 | Humanity's next great voyage begins. |
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