Starmer clings on – but for how long?
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🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Sir Keir Starmer has pulled his premiership back from the brink. The PM secured the support of most of his party with an uncharacteristic show of passion at a meeting of Labour MPs on Monday night – but, with local elections imminent, his position is far from secure.
Camilla and Tim are joined by the Labour MP and Starmer ally Karl Turner, who says the “terribly cautious” PM needs to be “more normal” and focus on delivery.
Plus, King Charles has thrown his brother under a Royal carriage with a statement offering his support to the police as they “assess” Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s alleged leaking to Jeffrey Epstein.
Could this change in tactic have anything to do with the monarch being heckled by the public?
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.9 | Stama clings on for now. |
| 0:11.9 | We take you inside the Prime Minister's extraordinary meeting with MPs when he managed to save his bacon. |
| 0:17.5 | But Labour MP Carl Turner tells us that things don't improve fast, Carl will |
| 0:22.0 | be down the job centre. And the King has promised to help the police with their inquiries as they |
| 0:26.8 | look into his brother. Has Charles III being heckled by the public twice led him to finally |
| 0:32.4 | throw Andrew under the royal bus? Welcome to the Daily Tea with me, Tim Stanley. And me, Camilla Tominy. |
| 0:48.4 | We are calling this the McChicken coup. |
| 0:52.5 | And that needs to be explained. |
| 0:54.2 | I think McChicken is a reference to both McSweeney, but also Anasawar, in Scotland, |
| 1:00.3 | his tartan-clad assault on the Prime Minister, which, by the way, I mean, went down like |
| 1:05.7 | a tunnex caramel in a bowl of haggis. |
| 1:08.9 | I mean, he's there going, he must resign. Yes. It was followed up by somebody called, you wrote the name down. Where is he? Ewanstainbank. Is that a real name? Is that a real person? Ewan Stain Bank. Jock McFiddle. Jock McTavish. Tammy McThysell. |
| 1:28.1 | I don't know. |
| 1:29.0 | With these Labour MPs, it's always... |
| 1:31.3 | Who are they? |
| 1:32.1 | It could be made up. |
| 1:33.1 | It could be real. |
| 1:34.1 | You don't know. |
| 1:34.7 | But anyway, it kind of died to death because after Sawa had taken to the stage to call for the Prime Minister's resignation. |
| 1:41.9 | At that hour, it looked like there might be momentum against Stama and he may go. |
| 1:48.9 | MacMentum. |
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