Electioncast Results: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer
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BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Today, Sir Keir Starmer became prime minister after visiting the King in Buckingham Palace.
Adam and Alex discuss his first speech in Downing Street. Earlier on Friday, Rishi Sunak made a final speech as prime minister, apologising to the nation and announcing he would be stepping down as party leader in due course.
And we look at the results that have come in on Friday morning including former prime minister Liz Truss losing her seat.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, here is your second helping of newscast for Friday, but then if any day deserves |
| 0:10.2 | multiple episodes, it's the day that we have a change of government and not just |
| 0:15.0 | any old change of government but a landslide by labor doing that very rare |
| 0:20.0 | thing and opposition going into government. We're recording this episode of newscast at lunchtime on Friday |
| 0:28.0 | which means we've just watched in the studio |
| 0:31.0 | Sir Kir Starmer and his wife, Lady Starmer, arriving in Downing Street, |
| 0:36.0 | greeted by friends and supporters waving flags, and Kir Starmer made his first official remarks |
| 0:42.0 | as Prime Minister, having just hot-footed it from Buckingham Palace |
| 0:45.6 | and being hired for the job of PM by the King. |
| 0:49.5 | So we will start this episode with his remarks in full so that they don't just go into |
| 0:54.3 | the history books they go directly into your ears as well that's on this episode of |
| 0:58.7 | newscast newscast from the BBC people do call me to show up Jenny what |
| 1:04.3 | holing day will be on Thursday the 4th of July no way |
| 1:08.6 | thank guard about town it's going to be a very long six weeks I was ringing ringing my underpants out and suddenly you're downy street. |
| 1:15.0 | Campaigns can feel very long and you voters can be a volatile bunch. |
| 1:20.0 | Good afternoon. I have just returned from Buckingham Palace where I accepted an |
| 1:29.5 | invitation from His Majesty the King to form the next government of this great nation. |
| 1:37.0 | I want to thank the outgoing Prime Minister Rishizunak. |
| 1:48.6 | His achievement as the first British Asian Prime Minister of our country. |
| 1:54.0 | The extra effort that that will have required |
| 1:58.4 | should not be underestimated by anyone. |
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