Show 227 - *Keir Starmer Live*
Matt Forde's Political Party
The Political Party
4.7 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This is the Labour leader as you've never heard him before. Appearing in front of a live audience for perhaps the first time since he took the job, Keir Starmer shares some hilarious stories from his time in law and politics. Including the full story of what happened when he met that pub landlord in Bath. He candidly reflects on his first year in charge and how he handles pressure, but also outlines his intentions for the future of the Labour Party and how he thinks they can win the next election. Oh and he also has a helpful tip for any budding impressionists who might do his voice on Spitting Image...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political party. This episode features Keir Starmer recorded in |
| 0:13.3 | front of a live audience, another one of the very special interviews I recorded at the |
| 0:18.2 | character. Every single one of those will be put out as individual episodes. And this |
| 0:22.3 | represents, I think the first time, really, that Keir Starmer has been in front of a live |
| 0:26.8 | audience since he became lead with the opposition. This is a real treat of an episode before we |
| 0:32.9 | come on to the details of that. Email the show, political party podcast at gmail.com with your |
| 0:38.6 | stories of unusual places. You've seen politicians or strange encounters. You've had with them. You |
| 0:44.9 | can also email the show general feedback, suggestions for guests, anything you like. Alfie has been |
| 0:50.4 | in touch and said in 2006, a couple of years before he became Mayor of London, Boris Johnson |
| 0:56.2 | ran for another Alexa Doffis University of Edinburgh, Rector. A few makes and I decided to pitch |
| 1:02.2 | up to one of his events at the J.M.C.C. bar at Pollock calls of residents where he was met with |
| 1:06.9 | a barrage of protesters chanting down with top up fees, down with Boris. One student pulled a pint |
| 1:12.4 | over his head when he got up to address the crowd. As his campaign whist him out to move him onto |
| 1:18.2 | another venue, my mates and I ended up following directly behind him. I overheard one of the campaign |
| 1:23.4 | informing him of the plans for the evening. We're going to this pub, then to this pub, then onto |
| 1:27.6 | the union, then out clubbing to which Boris replied and I swear this is true, clubbing walled seals. |
| 1:33.8 | Now knowing the plans I might go. Now knowing the plans, we thank God it wasn't by the way, |
| 1:39.0 | well, let's find out. Knowing the plans we kept ourselves in one of the aforementioned pubs and |
| 1:43.8 | sure enough, Boris turned up and ordered a pint of bitter. We ended up having a short chat with him |
| 1:48.8 | over a pint, discussing all the matters of the day, such as mice in student flats and how |
| 1:53.2 | disgusting the scrambled eggs are at one of the student unions. After that, he was off again. |
| 1:58.2 | Needless to say, he didn't win the election. That honour went to Green Party MSP Mark Ballard. |
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