Leader Profiles: Sir Keir Starmer

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This bonus episode of Newscast is a profile of the leader of the Labour Party, Keir Starmer.

Adam is joined by Ailbhe Rea, associate editor at Bloomberg UK, and Tom Baldwin, author of Keir Starmer: The Biography, to chronicle Keir Starmer’s early life and political career. They discuss his family life, his legal career and how he rose to become leader of the Labour Party including behind-the-scenes details from those who know and work with him.

This episode is part of a series where Newscast profiles each of the leaders of major political parties.

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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Miranda Slade with Sam McLaren. The technical producers were Hannah Montgomery and Michael Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:05.0	Hello, as part of newscasts election cast coverage,
0:08.0	we're bringing you these bonus episodes where we profile each of the major party leaders running in the 2024 general election.
0:16.0	We've been speaking to journalists who followed their careers and also tracking down people who know these politicians pretty well, just to try and find out what they are actually really like.
0:27.0	This episode is all about Kirstormer, leader of the Labour Party.
0:32.0	You probably, if you follow politics like we do, already know that
0:36.4	61 year old Kier grew up in a pebble-dash semi in Surrey and then his dad was a toolmaker and that he was a lawyer before he entered politics and that he became labor leader in
0:47.2	2020.
0:48.2	But in this episode you will also hear about him living in a flat share which once featured a can't believe I'm going to say this
0:54.8	the bathtub full of vomit his early years as a quote radical human rights lawyer and
1:00.9	how he carefully planned every step of his leadership campaign all while serving
1:06.6	in Jeremy Corbin's Shadow Cabinet.
1:09.0	We will cover all of that and some more on this episode of Newscast.
1:13.0	Newscast.
1:14.0	Newscast from the BBC.
1:16.0	I grew up in a pebble dash semi.
1:18.0	My dad was a toolmaker.
1:20.0	The only thing that's boring is opposition.
1:22.0	It's the first time ever I've been able to say,
1:25.0	well done, Kia.
1:27.0	Get up, go home.
1:29.0	If he thinks that bothers me, he doesn't know me.
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