Keir Starmer International: UK Labour leader puts the world to rights
Power Play
POLITICO
4.2 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In this inaugural episode of POLITICO's new global podcast Power Play, host Anne McElvoy talks to the man who hopes to be Britain's next prime minister, Keir Starmer.
In a wide-ranging interview on global affairs, the Labour leader reveals his concerns about China. He warns that the U.K. needs to “wean itself off” China “when it comes to trade, commerce and technology.”
Starmer also tells Anne what he thinks about Donald Trump, Joe Biden, the war in Ukraine and his vision for a "clean energy alliance" around the world.
Later, Anne talks to POLITICO's assembled “Power Panel” from New York City, where the annual U.N. General Assembly is underway. As leaders gather on the international stage, Rosa Prince, the editor of London Playbook and Nahal Toosi, senior foreign affairs correspondent in Washington, D.C. share their analysis of Starmer's thinking about the world and what it might mean for transatlantic relations.
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| 0:31.5 | Learn more at W. W. Novavax.com. worldwide. first edition of Power Play, Politico's Transatlantic Interview Show. |
| 0:45.0 | And let me introduce myself, I'm Anne McElvoy, and from this week I'll be sitting down with |
| 0:50.0 | some of the world's most powerful individuals to discover what they think, what makes |
| 0:54.6 | them tick, and how they make decisions that affect all of our lives in politics, business, |
| 1:00.4 | innovation and culture. One of the reasons I wanted to do this with Politico |
| 1:05.1 | was that as well as access to the most influential figures we also have the sharpest |
| 1:10.3 | bench of international reporters on the block. |
| 1:13.4 | So after each interview, I'll be joined by our journalists |
| 1:16.8 | from either side of the Atlantic for expert analysis |
| 1:20.2 | and for their observations of what the conversation has told us |
| 1:23.7 | and where the story is likely to go next. |
| 1:26.0 | My first guest has got a firm destination in mind |
| 1:29.4 | and it's that glossy black door |
| 1:31.8 | at the UK's Number 10 Downing Street. |
| 1:35.0 | I feel very strongly that since Brexit there's been a sense that we've not just exited the EU, |
| 1:40.4 | that we've somehow turned our back on the world and wherever you go, people feel almost the absence of the UK, |
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