Keir Starmer: born again Brexiteer?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 31 May 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Keir Starmer's column on Wednesday morning in right-wing tabloid newspaper The Express is another step in the Labour leader's transformation from all guns blazing Remainer to born again Brexiteer. But he's not the first Labour leader to turn to the right-leaning press to prove his prime ministerial credentials as the next general election draws ever closer.
What does this mean for Labour and where does this leave Britain's place in the world, and its relationship with Europe if Labour are the next government in power? And what on earth is 'Securonomics' - the new economic model Starmer's potential Chancellor Rachel Reeves launched in Washington DC last week that will seek to boost post-Brexit Britain.
Plus - the curious case of Joe Biden's former advisor fleeing to Moscow to seek 'safety' and citizenship. Hmm.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | We must have other options. |
| 0:16.6 | And conference, that must include campaigning for a public vote. |
| 0:26.6 | It's right that Parliament has the first say. |
| 0:29.6 | It's right the Parliament has the first say. |
| 0:31.6 | But if we need to break the impasse, our options must include campaigning for a public vote, |
| 0:36.6 | and nobody is ruling out remain as an option. |
| 0:41.1 | That was Keir Stama at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton in 2019. |
| 0:47.0 | If you have been in therapy, you'd probably say that Keir Stama has been on a journey, |
| 0:53.8 | because the journey to date has taken him to the |
| 0:57.2 | comment pages of the Daily Express and saying Britain's future is outside the EU, not in the |
| 1:04.3 | single market, not in the customs union, not with a return to freedom of movement. Those arguments |
| 1:10.6 | are in the past. |
| 1:11.9 | So today on the newsagents, Starmer's journey, Labor's journey on Brexit, |
| 1:16.4 | but perhaps more importantly still, the little noticed, big change, |
| 1:21.6 | its big journey on economics and where they might be taking us after the next election. |
| 1:26.9 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:31.3 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:33.5 | It's Lewis and it is John and we're at Newsagents HQ, still minus Emily Maitliss, who's away for the week. |
| 1:40.5 | And we're going to start with Kirstama and an article he has penned, nothing unusual in Labour leaders or any other leaders, kind of writing an op-ed for a newspaper. |
| 1:51.1 | Slightly unusual that Kirstama has washed up on the comment pages of the Daily Express. |
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