Keir Starmer - Replay
Matt Forde's Political Party
The Political Party
4.7 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Just 4 years ago Keir Starmer was Shadow Brexit Secretary. That’s when this episode was recorded. On that night it was clear he was a man going places, he was a total contrast to the leadership not just of his party but his opponents’. Since this interview he has transformed the fortunes of the Labour Party in a profound way. Hear where it all began.
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| 0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
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| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to another special edition of the political party as part of this |
| 0:36.4 | replay series because I'm away for a bit because I'm in hospital and I feel like I need to say that at the start of every episode now, in case people aren't listening to every episode, just so that people know why, but don't want it to become repetitive or overshadow the wonderful joy of another great episode from the back catalog of the political |
| 0:56.9 | party. This one is the first time Kiestom appeared on the show back in July 2019. Less than a year later he would become the labor leader but at this |
| 1:04.5 | point he was Shadow Brexit Secretary and did anyone really think at that |
| 1:08.4 | point that there would be a general election later that year and that it would go the way that it did |
| 1:15.2 | and that Kiestama very quickly would then become leader with the Labour Party and not just that, |
| 1:19.4 | but he would preside over the fortunes of the Labour Party in quite such a dramatic way. |
| 1:26.4 | I remember at the time thinking, this guy is clearly going places and I think he should |
| 1:32.2 | stand to be leader of the Labour Party but I mean you would |
| 1:35.9 | never perhaps know at that point that it was going to happen so quickly and that he |
| 1:40.5 | would become the Prime Minister and waiting so quick. |
| 1:43.8 | So in this interview, he absolutely demonstrates why he is such a formidable politician |
| 1:49.4 | and why he's gone on and to be so successful as the leader of the Labour Party, you can see that it's all there. |
| 1:55.8 | And I know this was an interview that when he stood for the leadership, lots of people |
| 1:59.6 | listened to. |
| 2:01.3 | This was used as a way for people to know who he was and I just remember being |
| 2:06.2 | on phenomenal form being really funny mega sharp and obviously that was just in |
| 2:11.5 | such a contrast really to to all the leaders of the parties at the time. |
| 2:16.0 | And obviously he's proven that contrast to be such an asset since. |
| 2:21.0 | So even though this is just over four years ago, this feels like an absolute lifetime ago. |
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