Israel’s hostage dilemma
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 11 October 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Sir Keir Starmer made a pitch for the votes of disillusioned former Conservative supporters, abductions of dozens of civilians present Israel with risky options to get them back, and the EU has put its development funding to the Palestinian territories under review after Hamas’s attack on Israel.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Keir Starmer promises ‘national renewal’ in appeal to UK voters
Hamas kidnappings leave Israeli forces with painful hostage dilemma
EU to review development funding for Palestinian territories
Brussels blames commissioner for Palestinian aid freeze blunder
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:04.1 | Today is Wednesday, October 11th, and this is your FT News briefing. |
| 0:09.4 | Here Starmer is trying to win over conservative voters, Israel is trying to figure out how |
| 0:14.4 | to get back the hostages that Hamas took, and the EU is looking into the funds it sends |
| 0:19.8 | to Palestinian territories. |
| 0:21.8 | I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:30.0 | It's looking like next year's general election in the UK will be Labour's to lose. |
| 0:46.5 | The party currently sits comfortably ahead of conservatives in the polls, but Labour leader |
| 0:51.2 | Kier Starmer isn't taking anything for granted. |
| 0:54.8 | He outlined his vision for the country at the party's annual conference on Tuesday. |
| 1:05.8 | Joining me now from a pretty noisy press hall in Liverpool just after the speech is the |
| 1:10.2 | FT's political editor George Parker. |
| 1:14.8 | So George going into the Labour Party conference, Starmer was looking to answer the question |
| 1:18.8 | that we just heard why Labour, meaning like why vote for Labour. |
| 1:23.8 | But did he have to say about that? |
| 1:25.8 | Well as he's suggesting the question, he's been for a long time saying, look, the Conservative |
| 1:29.8 | Party is not fit to government country, they've been in charge for 13 years, things got worse |
| 1:35.1 | rather than better. |
| 1:36.6 | I wanted to remind everyone that there was a time, and it wasn't that long ago when question |
| 1:44.0 | such as is Britain destined for decline, would have felt ridiculous even to ask. |
| 1:50.5 | So today was an opportunity for a positive case for Labour government, and there are, |
| 1:54.6 | I guess two sort of principle things he was offering. |
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