Exclusive: Keir Starmer talks Trump and Russia with The News Agents

The News Agents

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🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Keir Starmer has spoken exclusively to The News Agents in Hull on a big day in both domestic and international politics. In his speech today, the Prime Minister pledged to abolish the biggest quango in the world - scrapping NHS England, the body which manages the day to day running of the health service. In the wide ranging speech in Hull, the PM lamented a state over stretched, inefficient and not delivering security for Brits. As he spoke, Russia came forward to publicly reject the ceasefire proposals worked out by President Trump and agreed by President Zelenskyy. Jon and Lewis got his first reaction to that news - and discussed his vision for a smaller state.

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0:00.0	The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK commercial banking, opening up a world of opportunity.
0:10.6	This is a global player original podcast.
0:14.0	Does it keep you up at night, Prime Minister, at the moment, all of this?
0:16.5	No, it doesn't, but I'm acutely aware of the significance of a decision of a prime minister
0:25.0	to deploy our forces, our personnel, into any arena, in whatever form it may take.
0:35.2	I'm deeply aware of that, and I take it extremely seriously.
0:40.1	But in the end, the first, the most important duty of the Prime Minister is to keep the country safe
0:46.6	and secure. And I take that duty extremely seriously.
0:50.0	That was the Prime Minister, Kea Stama, speaking exclusively with the news agents.
0:55.2	He's been making a speech in Hull where he had several surprising announcements and another,
1:01.8	which happened offstage from a very different source.
1:05.1	While he was speaking, the Kremlin announced that it wasn't interested in a short-term ceasefire. So we talked to
1:12.9	Kirstama about what happens now, what should happen next. Welcome to a special edition of the
1:20.4	newsagents from Hull.
1:24.4	The Newsagents. It's John. It's Lewis.
1:27.7	And we are at the corporate headquarters of a pharmaceutical company, Reckett's in Hull, where the
1:34.7	Prime Minister was on stage this morning, ostensibly to talk about the size of the British
1:40.6	state. But of course, the other issues of geopolitical uncertainty are the backdrop
1:48.1	to absolutely everything now that is focusing the minds of people in Downing Street.
1:52.5	Yeah, I mean, this was a speech which was trailed to be about the ways that the Prime
1:58.0	Minister wants to transform the British state. But interestingly, he actually
2:02.5	paired the two themes together and wove the two together because he explicitly said that the geopolitical
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