PMQs: The Starmer Sutra
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Kemi Badenoch mocks Keir Starmer over his latest U-turn, while he claims the Tories have had 'more positions than the 'Kama Sutra'.
Hugo Rifkind unpacks the exchanges from the Commons with Gabriel Pogrund, Stefan Boscia and Susie McCabe.
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| 0:00.0 | PMQ's Unpacked on Times Radio. |
| 0:03.4 | Unpacking the politics and cutting through the crossfire. And joining me to unpack the action from the Commons Chamber. It is the Sunday Times Whitehall Editor, Gabriel. Hello, Gabriel. Hello. How are you keeping? I'm well, thank you. Good to have you here. And also here to completely bomb my accent and help us out. It's the comedian Susie McCabe. Hello, Susie. |
| 0:20.6 | Hello. |
| 0:21.5 | Susie McCabe this week sitting in what is now known as the Nigel Farage chair. |
| 0:24.7 | Oh. completely bomb my accent and help us out. It's the comedian Susie McCabe. Hello, Susie McCabe this |
| 0:22.3 | week sitting in what is now known as the Nigel Farage chair. Oh, well, I can understand the connection. |
| 0:27.7 | Will we be able to tell the difference? Indeed. Indeed. Let's see what happens in this |
| 0:34.0 | shambles that's happening in the Palace of Westminster. Tell me about your own PMQ's habits. |
| 0:38.6 | Are you a regular viewer? |
| 0:39.7 | Yes, I am. |
| 0:40.7 | Do you watch with pleasure or more rage? |
| 0:43.3 | I think I watch with more pleasure because it's just got more and more ridiculous as time moves on. |
| 0:48.3 | I mean, this episode, this series that were in this box says pretty dull. |
| 0:54.0 | Right. Compared to there. And I've been to PMQ's a few times. I've went and San Francisco. episode, this series that we're in this box sets pretty dull compared to the... |
| 0:55.6 | And I've been to PMQ's a few times |
| 0:57.7 | I've went and sat in the comments |
| 0:58.8 | and watched it a few times and you realise how |
| 1:01.5 | absolutely hideous and how much of a waste of time |
| 1:04.0 | it actually is because we don't |
| 1:05.9 | hold the government to account and the rules |
| 1:07.8 | of who gets how many questions |
| 1:10.2 | but Starmour now needs to go and justify his 13th U-turn. |
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