Keir Starmer: Getting Personal with the New Prime Minister
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we revisit a compelling conversation with the new Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer. We explore the man behind the politician, and what he’s learned about leadership throughout his career
Reflecting on his journey from barrister to party leader, Keir opens up to Jake and Damian about his formative years, the challenges of his legal career, and the profound impact of his mother's resilience in his life.
From his passion for football and lessons learned from following Arsenal, to navigating the adversarial world of politics and his vision for reform, Keir shares insights on leadership, decision-making, and staying true to our principles.
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| 0:00.0 | Being leader in the Labour Party or leader of the opposition is a bit like being the England manager where everybody can do your job better than you. |
| 0:08.0 | Everybody's got an opinion on your job that you should be doing. I wouldn't have played him at left back or don't know what that's all about I know what difficult decisions are and I know they have to be |
| 0:16.2 | taken you cannot have a situation we said well that's too difficult I'm gonna walk |
| 0:19.2 | away from it that isn't leadership I didn't grow up thinking I would be or particularly |
| 0:25.3 | wanting to be an MP. It's not about Kiestahoma walking through the door |
| 0:30.0 | number 10. Push to one side what you can push to one side. Focus on what you're trying to achieve and |
| 0:34.0 | remember it isn't about you because when you're being subject to that kind of gritism it feels very |
| 0:40.8 | personal. I don't regret very much in life. But the last time I saw my dad, he was |
| 0:49.2 | in hospital, died, and I walked away. |
| 0:56.0 | I knew he was going to die and I didn't turn around to go back |
| 1:00.0 | and tell him what I thought. |
| 1:02.0 | And I should have that. |
| 1:08.0 | That is Sir Kia Starma and this is high performance, |
| 1:12.0 | the show that unlocks the minds of the most fascinating people on the planet. |
| 1:15.6 | Look on this show we are proudly apolitical. |
| 1:18.6 | This show isn't about us sharing our opinion with you. |
| 1:21.6 | This is about you listening to the opinions, the views and |
| 1:24.6 | the mindsets of some of the most fascinating people in the world, many of them leaders. |
| 1:29.9 | And if we're going to be led by someone, I think that even if we don't agree with the things they sometimes say, |
| 1:35.6 | just bearing our head in the sand or closing off our ears or our minds to the things that they want to tell us |
| 1:41.1 | doesn't further anyone's cause. So all I would say for this episode is open your |
| 1:45.8 | ears, your eyes and your mind and just listen to a leader, the leader of the Labour Party and the new British Prime Minister |
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