Electioncast Results: Starmer Inside Number 10
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BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Today, Sir Keir Starmer holds cabinet meeting on his first full day as the UK’s new prime minister.
In this podcast recorded live for Radio 4, Adam, Laura and Paddy discuss Labour’s preparations for government, whether the Tory leadership race has already begun and which figure from Labour’s past could be making a return.
Plus, Laura reveals one of the more unusual forms of preparation that has taken place in the Treasury for the UK's first female chancellor.
You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming, Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Bella Saltiel. The assistant editor is Ben Mundy. The technical producer was Ricardo McCarthy. The editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello Laura and hello Patty. |
| 0:06.2 | Hello. |
| 0:07.2 | Hello. Shall we taught up how many hours we spent talking about the election in the last 72 hours? |
| 0:12.2 | Probably 72 hours actually well when is it |
| 0:14.9 | just being hideously smug self-indulgent broadcasters making it about us |
| 0:18.4 | well I think the two of you have I you'd ban talking about all of this stuff. |
| 0:23.5 | You could bet we enjoy our jobs and it's fun. We've had an interesting time. |
| 0:27.0 | Yes. You two have done valiantly. I've done it... |
| 0:29.0 | You have done it really hurt. I've only done about six hours, but I was at I didn't do any work. I was just in a place. No, I was just in a place. But you two cases... No, you're on the newscast all night, sir. On your balcony in Braintree. You had 150 newscasters on beanbags and couches and there was a great |
| 0:47.1 | atmosphere. You were on the telebox, Dora and there was a great passion among the people |
| 0:52.4 | who really plugged in for this election. |
| 0:54.0 | Do you know what I think my favorite detail if I rewind over the last 40 hours or so |
| 0:58.8 | was when Ritchie Sunak went out to do his farewell statement in Downing Street, and if you looked closely, |
| 1:04.8 | his wife who was standing a few paces behind him had an umbrella. |
| 1:08.4 | And the part of me was thinking, is that just a sensible precaution from some people who learned the hard way that you just have an umbrella? |
| 1:14.8 | Or was it actually just one last little sort of like inside joke for people for... |
| 1:19.9 | And it was a sort of nod to just what we've all been through as a country in the last six weeks and I thought that's quite a little poetic novelistic little detail. |
| 1:28.0 | It was quite classic and also Labour in equal other umbrella news they turned up with a whole load of Union Jack |
| 1:34.2 | umbrellas in case it rained on their activists but the whole thing yesterday |
| 1:37.7 | when they brought their activists in so that Kirstammer could be pictured |
| 1:41.9 | glad-handing happy happy, smiling people and kissing babies as he walked into number 10. |
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