S8 Ep510: Preview for later today: Gregory Copley discusses Prime Minister Keir Starmer's leadership crisis, where scandals and internal party opposition threaten to trigger new national elections or parliamentary suspension.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 24 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchel, a conversation with Gregory Copley, Defense and Foreign Affairs, |
| 0:05.2 | about the Prime Minister in Great Britain, Kirstarmer. |
| 0:09.5 | The situation deteriorates week to weeks. |
| 0:12.5 | Always a new scandal. |
| 0:13.6 | This time it's Mendelsohn, appointed by Mr. Starrmer, to be ambassador to the United States, |
| 0:23.3 | now revealed as part of the Epstein scandal, has been arrested. Allegation is exchanging private information publicly that affects |
| 0:33.7 | the markets, giving away a privileged position. There's more to it. That's enough. |
| 0:40.5 | Starrmer has not separated himself from Anderson. |
| 0:43.2 | There are pictures of the two together everywhere. |
| 0:46.0 | He was the appointment by Mr. Starrmer to the United States. |
| 0:50.1 | Can he survive this? |
| 0:51.2 | He survived everything else. |
| 0:53.1 | Gregory looks at the possibilities they had had knowing that more scandal is coming. |
| 0:58.6 | Here's Gregory. More of this tonight. |
| 1:02.4 | He's getting a lot of flack from his own party. |
| 1:05.1 | There's definitely movements within the Labor Party's parliamentary group to try to oust him and replace him as the |
| 1:14.9 | leader of the party and therefore as Prime Minister. That's a very difficult process because under |
| 1:20.6 | the Labour Party's rules to have a vote against a leader, you have to take it back to the |
| 1:25.0 | rank and file membership throughout the country. |
| 1:29.2 | That could happen. |
| 1:36.3 | Certainly, it could also happen that Stama's position may become politically untenable, and even within Parliament, there could be a vote of no confidence against him, or he could |
| 1:41.4 | do something which could trigger the king to prorogue Parliament, suspend |
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