Is Starmer’s silence on Venezuela worth it?
Politics Weekly UK
The Guardian
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🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:10.0 | I want to ensure that I've got all the facts at my disposal, and we haven't got that at the moment. |
| 0:15.7 | We condemn Putin for doing it. We need to make clear that Donald Trump shouldn't be doing it either. |
| 0:22.6 | You don't have an opinion on whether or not Donald Trump should go into Greenland. |
| 0:26.2 | Well, look, this isn't for me to sit here and talk about hypotheticals. We could go on forever |
| 0:30.3 | like that. The Danish Prime Minister is talking about this. |
| 0:33.5 | Total access. We need total access. We need access to the oil and to other things in their country that allow us to rebuild their country. |
| 0:43.3 | Are we now in favour of colonialism? |
| 0:45.1 | We're not in favour of colonialism and we're not entirely clear yet what President Trump meant by those comments. |
| 0:51.5 | I'm Pippa Carrera and I'm Kieran Stacey. |
| 0:53.9 | You're listening to Politics Weekly for The Guardian. |
| 1:00.1 | Welcome back to a chilly Westminster. |
| 1:03.4 | But we've all had a great breakover Christmas, haven't we, Kieran? |
| 1:06.5 | You managed to get some time off? |
| 1:07.7 | Yeah, yeah, I did. |
| 1:08.9 | I'm actually quite grateful to be in the broom cupboard |
| 1:10.9 | today because the usual stifling heat is actually quite a respite from minus two outside. I still got my coat on and a hat next to me in case I need to put it back on again. I know. Well, I feel for you because you're going to head over to Downing Street in a few minutes time, aren't you? And I wouldn't want to do that journey right now. Frosty atmosphere over there at the moment. Very good. No, I did. |
| 1:29.1 | I managed to have a very nice break. Guess what time I want to do that journey right now. Frosty atmosphere over there at the moment. |
| 1:28.1 | Very good. |
| 1:29.0 | No, I did. |
| 1:30.9 | I managed to have a very nice break. |
| 1:32.6 | Guess what time I went to bed on New Year's Eve? |
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