Foreign Affairs 🇫🇷 Starmer’s French Correction, with Lord Peter Ricketts

The Bunker

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🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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An occasional series on how Britain is fixing its battered foreign relationships. Today: After the combative Tory years, Keir Starmer is trying to reset the Anglo-French connection. What do we want from France and what does Paris want from us? Britain’s former Ambassador to France Lord Peter Ricketts talks to Ros Taylor about whether Starmer and Macron are natural allies, the damage caused by Brexit, and what France’s “deep unease” with itself means for Britain. • “I would not have relished being Ambassador to France and having my friends ask ‘Poor Britain, what are you doing?’” • “By about 2020-21, things were at rock bottom… When Liz Truss was asked ‘France, friend of foe?’ and she replied that the jury was still out.” We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to Indeed.com/bunker for £100 sponsored credit. www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Ros Taylor. Produced by Eliza Davis Beard. Audio production by Tom Taylor. Managing Editor Jacob Jarvis. Art by James Parrett. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.3	Exchange fees and fair usage limits apply. Welcome to the bunker. You'll need to know on news and politics five days a week. I'm Ros Taylor. We've come a long way. It was only in June
0:46.3	that Ritchie Sunak left the D-Day commemorations early to general disgust.
0:51.2	Last week, Kiestarma and Emmanuel Macron strolled through Bleden Palace gardens together and sat down for a chat on a bench before a private dinner.
1:00.0	But can this blossoming relationship survive France's turbulent politics?
1:04.7	What do we want from France and what does France want from us?
1:08.8	Lord Peter Ricketts, a former UK Ambassador to France, is in a very good position to know. Welcome to the bunker, Peter.
1:16.0	Hello, Ros, thanks for having me.
1:18.0	You retired from that job as Ambassador shortly before the E-referendum.
1:23.2	In some ways that must have been a relief.
1:25.9	Few, yes it really was.
1:28.0	I would not actually have relished being Ambassador to France
1:31.6	and having all my friends come to me and saying, oh poor Britain,
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