Lights, Starmer, and Eurovision Drama
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Today we take a look at Keir Starmer’s election plan with a man who was once one of his closest colleagues.
Former chief of staff to the Labour leader, Sam White, joins Laura and Paddy to talk about what he thinks his old boss needs to do to avoid throwing away his lead.
He also reveals details about their conversations about defections, and his own sacking.
And there’s controversy at Eurovision where Dutch contestant, Joost Klein, has been banned, and the and Irish contestant, Bambie Thug withdrew from a dress rehearsal.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | So once long ago there was no newscasts at the weekend, |
| 0:07.7 | because there was no news. |
| 0:08.7 | Imagine that. |
| 0:09.5 | There was no newscasts at the weekend. |
| 0:11.1 | There was always news. From the the dawn of time from the days of |
| 0:14.8 | Adam and Eve and the cavemen and all sorts of things there's always been news. |
| 0:18.3 | We have got a massive story of the week gone by with the Labour Party and a developing story in Sweden. |
| 0:24.6 | We do. We have developing drama and defection drama and all sorts of things to talk about. |
| 0:30.4 | And after all of last week's discussion about the Tory meltdowns and the local elections this afternoon on newscasts, |
| 0:36.0 | we're going to take a look at what might go wrong for Kere Starmer. |
| 0:39.0 | First though, did you see the Northern Lights? |
| 0:42.0 | I was having a pizza at the time. Oh, I was asleep. |
| 0:45.8 | However, Isabel, Rob, Mark, Dickie and Jules have sent us their amazing pictures, |
| 0:51.2 | so thank you very much for them. we'll maybe share some of them on |
| 0:53.6 | this information superhighway let's hope we don't miss any more on this afternoon's |
| 0:58.2 | episode of newscast newscast newscast from the BBC |
| 1:01.9 | hundreds of bald men scrapping over a single broken cone. |
| 1:06.0 | He's not a leader, he is a human weather vein. |
| 1:09.0 | Two cheeks of the same backside. |
| 1:11.0 | No politicians are listening to what's happening we essentially need a bigger |
| 1:16.6 | bazooka why do you always think that the way you live is better than the way we'll live the |
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