Much a-coup about nothing? Labour take all the wrong notes from the Tories

Pod Save the UK

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News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Are knives being sharpened by disgruntled MPs planning a coup against the PM? As Keir Starmer’s team dig in against a supposed threat to the Prime Minister from Health Secretary Wes Streeting - has the Tory-brand of Westminster psychodrama come back for a new series? Meanwhile the BBC is under fire from the left, the right, the centre and the US president. Nish and Coco dig into an existential crisis for the public broadcaster. And as COP30 kicks off in Brazil - can we rescue the 1.5C climate target? Alex Reid from Global Witness drops in to give us a reality check. Later - as Robert Jenrick begins posting AI generated slop to attack his political rivals - Coco speaks to the AI and Online Safety Minister Kanishka Narayan. CHECK OUT THESE DEALS FROM OUR SPONSORS SHOPIFY https://www.shopify.co.uk/podsavetheuk BABBEL https://www.babbel.com/PSUK AUDIO CREDITS BBC Radio 4 GUESTS Alex Reid, Head of Forests team at Global Witness Kanishka Narayan MP, AI and Online Safety Minister Pod Save the UK is a Reduced Listening production for Crooked Media. Contact us via email: [email protected] BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/podsavetheuk.crooked.com Insta: https://instagram.com/podsavetheuk Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsavetheuk TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@podsavetheuk Facebook: https://facebook.com/podsavetheukYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@PodSavetheUK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.4	It's a trusted global perspective.
0:17.7	The Economist know which way is up.
0:22.7	Hi, this is Podsave the UK. I'm Cocoa Khan. And I'm Nish Kamar. This week, the BBC is
0:27.6	under fire from left, right, centre and the US president. We'll dig into just how perilous
0:31.9	the situation is for the corporation. And as one of our least favourite Tories begins
0:36.5	posting AI-generated slop to attack
0:39.0	his political opponents, I speak to the AI and online safety minister, Kanishka Narayan.
0:44.2	And as COP30 kicks off in Brazil, we ask, can we still rescue the one and a half degree
0:49.3	climate target? We speak to Alex Reid from Global Witness.
0:54.3	But first, this is my crystal ball music.
1:00.8	Crystal ball music.
1:02.7	Yeah, you have to imagine I'm gazing into a crystal ball.
1:06.1	Yes, but I'm trying to imagine why, because I know what you're going to talk about.
1:09.2	Okay.
1:10.0	So that's my confusion. My confusion is everything. Okay. Okay. Okay. Because what we're going to discuss is a Westminster bubble story. Yeah. Yeah. So we're going to gaze into the Westminster bubble, which is a crystal ball. Yeah. Yeah. Does that work? I think at this point, me and the listeners are used to your circuituitous logic.
1:31.3	Do you know what I was just thinking about?
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