Sir Keir Starmer on Brexit, the Met Police and "being a lad"
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Up an icy cold Swiss mountain, Sir Keir Starmer talked exclusively and at length to The News Agents. Will the UK ever rejoin the EU? What should happen to the Metropolitan Police and what do his kids think of his political ambition?
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Video: Will Gibson-Smith
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Production: Gabriel Radus
Editor: Tom Hughes
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.4 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.9 | It is strange when something that happens inadvertently seems to have a bit of a wider meaning. |
| 0:19.4 | We sat down with Kirstama in the studio and the |
| 0:23.1 | floor manager said to him, because of the microphones and the cameras, could you move a few |
| 0:28.0 | inches to the left? And he actually moved a fraction to the right. Now, here at the newsagents, |
| 0:34.8 | we don't look for semiotics and meaning in everything we do, |
| 0:38.0 | but it is quite funny that a Labour leader coming for the first time to the World Economic Forum in Davos |
| 0:45.0 | shifts just a tad to the right. |
| 0:48.7 | Welcome to the Newsagents. |
| 0:53.0 | The Newsagents. It news agents. |
| 0:55.3 | It's Emily. |
| 0:56.4 | And it's John. |
| 0:57.2 | And we are at Davos. |
| 0:59.1 | And I want to paint a picture of where we were last night. |
| 1:02.3 | We were in this glorified log cabin. |
| 1:04.9 | It is gone midnight. |
| 1:06.3 | There is dancing going on in one room. |
| 1:08.3 | But in the corner of another sort of booth sits Kirstama, |
| 1:14.1 | the Labour Party leader, Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, and Tony Blair, the former |
| 1:18.2 | Prime Minister. |
| 1:19.6 | And two of Tony Blair's former aides are rushing around trying to find interesting, influential, important people for Kyr Stama |
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