Sir Keir Starmer's PMQs Debut

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Today, we discuss the first post-election edition of Prime Minister’s Questions - and the first since Sir Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak swapped places.

Adam is joined by Chris and Alex to talk through the day’s political news, including PMQs, the seven Labour MPs who have been suspended after voting against the government and Baroness Eluned Morgan being elected as the new leader of Welsh Labour.

And, why has the album ‘brat’ by British popstar Charli XCX inspired so many memes about Vice-President Kamala Harris? Adam enlightens Chris on memes and the concept of brat summer.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello Alex.
0:05.8	Hello Adam.
0:06.5	Hello, Chris.
0:07.5	Hello Adam.
0:08.5	So I was doing my accreditation for the Labour Party Conference today, so I can have my press pass to actually
0:14.0	get into the party conference.
0:16.0	A mid-drawing start?
0:17.0	Oh yes, I mean, you know I love it when we have a little staff meeting.
0:21.0	There is a point to this story because you have to do the drop down menu of the prefix for your name and obviously I always just do Mr and I don't do like Reverend or Major General, but Alex will you be doing Doctor? Do you know, I just had a feeling that you
0:35.1	are going to say this there, I don't know. I will not be doing Doctor. I will not be
0:40.1	doing Doctor, although in theory I guess I could just explain to
0:43.8	newscasters why that is the case so I was very honored to last week have been
0:49.1	given an honorary doctorate by the University of Portsmouth so I know it was a really, really special moment actually.
0:55.0	I went to the graduation ceremony which, you know, when you just see all of those young graduates there was just really,
1:00.0	I don't want to sound too cheesy, but it was actually quite inspiring and I was really
1:04.6	the whole thing was amazing and I was really honored by it but no I shall not be changing my title
1:08.0	on my labor party accreditation form although I you have from my duty that I have got a
1:12.2	get on and do it.
1:13.0	Yeah, you've got till Friday.
1:15.0	So chop chop.
1:17.0	Are you an honorary doctor of something?
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