Sir Keir Starmer: The Analysis

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re going through the PM’s first major television interview since getting the job. He defended his decision to cut winter fuel payments for most pensioners, and said his government is "going to have to be unpopular" to deliver change. Paddy’s also been talking to the Health Secretary Wes Streeting, who says he’ll call in the private sector to get NHS waiting lists down. You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell. It was made by Chris Flynn and Arsenii Sokolov. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Now for people who haven't seen newscasts on TV because it's visualised,
0:08.0	we have a picture on our desk of Adam and Chris looking at us. Well looking there. Well it's pointing the other way.
0:16.3	Well it could be it was but it's there. Do you want me to move it so they are looking at you?
0:19.5	No that's relevant isn't it? Well I could do that. How do you feel?
0:23.0	Oh, let's do that.
0:24.0	So, how do you feel now?
0:25.0	I feel very fine.
0:26.0	I love looking at you and Henry.
0:28.0	Okay, I'm going to do something.
0:29.0	I have to move my microphone for this moment.
0:30.0	Hang on.
0:31.0	Laura is rising from her chair.
0:33.0	I say rising, struggling.
0:34.7	Now she's now put the picture in front of me, Chris and Adam.
0:38.2	And how do you feel now?
0:39.3	Well, obviously jealous and threatened by two colleagues. Now if you're listening to this not
0:44.4	watching, Patty's knees are trembling, his eyes are doing something that I don't
0:49.5	even know how to describe, so I'm going to move the picture back. Okay, hang on. I'm moving because you tell us why we're doing this all for you. Okay, so one of the strange thing, well, one of the things that I think people watching at home might have remarked on from our interview with Kirst Starmer this morning is he's cleared up the mystery
1:04.2	about why he moved Margaret Thatcher, his portrait from the wall in his study. But the way that he
1:08.6	cleared up the mystery he says he doesn't like people looking at him in portraits.
1:12.1	This is not actually about Margaret Thatcher at all.
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