HEADLINE: UK Labour Party Faces Crisis as Starmer's Leadership Falters GUEST NAME: Anatol Lieven SUMMARY: Sir Keir Starmer faces "extremely unusual" unpopularity despite Labour's large majority. Potential replacements include Andy Burnham and Lucy Powell
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🗓️ 19 September 2025
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HEADLINE: UK Labour Party Faces Crisis as Starmer's Leadership Falters
GUEST NAME: Anatol Lieven
SUMMARY: Sir Keir Starmer faces "extremely unusual" unpopularity despite Labour's large majority. Potential replacements include Andy Burnham and Lucy Powell. Discontent stems from poor judgment, lack of progressive vision, and resentment over Jeremy Corbyn's removal. Labour risks massive defections to Corbyn's new radical left-wing party if Starmer's leadership continues.
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| 0:30.1 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:37.9 | The Parliament. The Parliament is the mothership that launched the United States of America. |
| 0:41.9 | Therefore, what happens in the parliament doesn't stay in the parliament. |
| 0:46.7 | I watch it because I'm learning late in life of the intricacies of government where the two or three opposition parties sit facing the majority party, and every Wednesday they hazee each other or |
| 0:58.0 | rumble or make wonderful speeches at the dispatch box. |
| 1:02.7 | It's a wonderful ceremony. |
| 1:04.1 | I miss it when it doesn't happen here, but right now it's happening not only at the dispatch box in Parliament, but in the corridors |
| 1:13.2 | of Parliament, in all the pubs, in all the world. And Anatole even is here to help me understand |
| 1:19.1 | what's going on. And Atoll, a very good evening to you. It's easy to read in the telegraph and the |
| 1:24.2 | Times and the Guardian and in the F.T. That Sir Kier-Starmer is not adequate for |
| 1:31.3 | what Labour Party's overwhelming majority wants right now for the people of Britain. And therefore, |
| 1:37.7 | there's no longer just whispering, there's open discussion of who can step into this role |
| 1:43.4 | soon enough because we have a majority and we're |
| 1:45.9 | not going to give it up. I read that a major candidate may be a man named Andy Burnham, who's the |
| 1:54.0 | mayor of Greater Manchester. At the same time, there is a man named David Miliband who was in power |
| 2:00.4 | at the last government, Mr. Brown's government, |
| 2:02.7 | I believe. But it since then has been either shadow this or shadow that. I'm not quite sure what that |
| 2:08.1 | means. But there's another name mentioned, Paul, Ms. Powell, who is a candidate or a deputy prime |
| 2:16.2 | minister and assured that at the conference that's coming up at the end of this |
| 2:21.7 | month, she will be made the deputy prime minister. Her constituency is Manchester, and so |
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