Sparkles with Starmer plus Rob Delaney, NHS champion

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News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Despite being an American, who can’t even vote in this country, Rob Delaney has become an outspoken champion of the NHS. His love for our health service was born from tragedy: losing his young son Henry to cancer. He tells Nish and Coco why we have to fight for the NHS, and compares it to an American system which enriches CEOs and advertising execs. Find out why he thinks Joe Biden is the best president of his lifetime, and what he thinks of Keir Starmer. Plus with a cameo in the new Mission Impossible film, Rob is perfectly placed to answer Nish’s question: what does Tom Cruise smell like? Party Conference season continues, with insights into two very different gatherings: Labour in Liverpool and the Greens in Brighton. Coco describes what she got up to when she went down to the seaside at the invitation of Greens co-leader Carla Denyer - did they manage to woo her to their cause? Plus George Parker of the Financial Times, gives us all the gossip from the Labour get-together - was all that glitters gold? Did Keir Starmer convince as a Prime Minister in waiting?

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Potsay the UK. I'm Coco Khan and I'm Nishkumar. And it's almost 50 years since anyone who wasn't called Tony Blair won an election as Labour leader. Is this the man to change it? I grew up working class. I've been fighting all my life and I won't stop now.
0:29.0	As Labour wraps up its conference weeks, am in whether it's ready to govern. Our special guest is the comedian actor and author, Rob Delaney.
0:36.0	Hey there, I'm at UCH at the striking nurses. Wouldn't be anywhere else today. Look at all these wonderful people.
0:43.0	We'll find out why Rob has been shoulder to shoulder with nurses on the picket line.
0:47.0	Plus, what happened when I went to the Green Party conference in Brighton?
0:51.0	Hi Nish, welcome back. Sorry, we've really missed you.
1:02.0	Yeah, Coco is laughing because listen, I don't want to give too much of an insight into how we record these.
1:08.0	But Coco has just been doing her own impromptu acabella rendition of the theme tune just for everyone's benefit in this studio.
1:16.0	I thought it would help people understand their cue.
1:21.0	It was absolutely wonderful.
1:23.0	I like to do it less with a harmon more with a bow.
1:27.0	It was a bow. It was a 1970s porn soundtrack guitar. That's exactly what it was.
1:34.0	Well, it's the unofficial B side to our side track is me doing Nile Rogers does.
1:41.0	I'm back. I've been away for two weeks. I've been filming for two weeks.
1:48.0	Being a journalist. I've been being a journalist at local newspapers for a Sky TV program called Hold the Front Page.
1:55.0	I've worked English language newspaper in Benadorn for a week, which was let me tell you an extraordinary experience.
2:03.0	English people that live in Spain, I can tell you firsthand, do not enjoy being referred to as immigrants.
2:09.0	I can tell you that from first hand experience, they prefer expats, they do not enjoy immigrants.
2:15.0	And are you going to tell us, is it very much like what happens in Benadorn stays in Benadorn?
2:20.0	No, I mean, I think what happens in Benadorn is going to air on Sky Max in April.
2:23.0	So there might be no value in me keeping a complete value of secrecy over it.
2:27.0	No, it was, it was, it's been a very fun couple of weeks.
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