Has Starmer got a sleaze problem?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 19 September 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Just two months on from the landslide general election and Starmer is having to field questions about the 100k worth of freebies he's received since 2019 and why his chief of staff, Sue Gray, is being paid more than the PM.
The story it tells is of frantic briefing around the PM by disgruntled special advisors. Is this a problem he has to fix? Or can he ignore it? And can he withstand accusations of 'sleaze' after labelling the Tories with that for so long? We talk to the Starmer's chief of staff before Sue Gray - Sam White.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.6 | Mr Speaker, can I remind the Prime Minister of the Nolan Principles, which are meant to govern the behaviour of those in public office? |
| 0:19.7 | There are these, selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership. |
| 0:35.6 | Instead, what do we get from this Prime Minister and this Conservative government? |
| 0:39.3 | Dodgy contracts, jobs for their mates and cash for access, |
| 0:43.3 | and who's at the heart of it? |
| 0:45.3 | The Prime Minister, Major Slees, sitting there. |
| 0:49.3 | That was, of course, Kirstama, as leader of the opposition, |
| 0:53.3 | berating the then Prime Minister Boris Johnson. |
| 0:58.1 | It is astonishing how quickly the Tories would have it that the boot is on the other foot now, |
| 1:05.9 | that it is Kyrs Stama who is acting in a sleazy way with all these gifts |
| 1:11.6 | and perhaps the way he is running his government with cash for access accusations as well. |
| 1:18.0 | There is a big difference, of course. |
| 1:21.0 | Stama has declared every single one of those free gifts. |
| 1:27.1 | It is all within the rules. And yet the case he has made is against |
| 1:32.7 | slees. And right now, there are questions for this Labour Prime Minister to have to answer. |
| 1:39.9 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:44.9 | The Newsagents. The Newsagents. |
| 1:47.1 | It's John. |
| 1:47.8 | It's Emily. |
| 1:48.5 | And tomorrow is a really big day for us because our tickets go on sale. |
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