Keir Starmer, our new Prime Minister. What now?
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Labour are the new government. Sir Keir Starmer is our new Prime Minister.
He's in Downing Street, and he's about to appoint his cabinet...what next?
Plus, we recap on the likes of Liz Truss losing her seat. Yes, LIZ TRUSS.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:07.9 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.4 | With respect and humility, I invite you all to join this government of service in the mission of national renewal. |
| 0:25.3 | Our work is urgent and we begin it today. Thank you very much. |
| 0:32.9 | That was the sound of Britain's new Prime Minister. Kirstama, get used to it. |
| 0:39.0 | A different tone, slightly more cautious, perhaps, and slightly less polished. |
| 0:45.0 | But that is the man who we voted for overnight to take us in to change. |
| 0:51.9 | So has a new dawn broken or has it not? Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 0:59.8 | The Newsagents. It's John. It's Emily. It's Lewis. And we are running on fumes. But we're back |
| 1:07.0 | in Newsagents HQ. We should just say that for anyone not watching. Yeah. So we've been away for very few hours and now we're back in newsagents HQ. We should just say that for anyone not watching. Yeah, |
| 1:16.0 | so we've been away for very few hours and now we're back here. And the first episode under Labour government. Yeah. Our first episode now that Kirstama has been sworn in as Prime Minister, |
| 1:22.2 | the black door has shut and he is making it very clear that the work starts right now. |
| 1:28.3 | And you can only imagine the dizzying array of briefings and documents and everything else that are being passed under his eyes right now. |
| 1:38.3 | Let's play a little bit more of that speech. |
| 1:41.3 | These moments are iconic. He's standing on the steps of Downing Street, |
| 1:45.0 | having just visited our king. And this was the force of what he's trying to tell the country this morning. |
| 1:54.0 | Good afternoon. I have just returned from Buckingham Palace, where I accepted an invitation from His Majesty, |
| 2:03.6 | the King, to form the next government of this great nation. |
| 2:13.6 | I want to thank the outgoing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. His achievement as the first British-Asian |
| 2:23.8 | Prime Minister of our country, the extra effort that that will have required, you have given |
| 2:31.4 | us a clear mandate and we will use it to deliver change, to restore service |
| 2:37.7 | and respect to politics, end the era of noisy performance, tread more likely on your |
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