Starmer, insecure and unpopular, blocks opposition
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🗓️ 4 February 2026
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Starmer, insecure and unpopular, blocks opposition
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Alexander, let's do an update on what is going on in the UK and what is happening |
| 0:06.0 | with Kier Stommer and his canceling of Andy Burnham. |
| 0:13.6 | Is that correct? |
| 0:15.2 | His number one opponent, right? |
| 0:17.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:18.7 | Okay, he's been deleted, canceled, removed by Stummer, right? |
| 0:23.3 | Is that a right way of putting it? Not, not quite. It's actually, it's actually much more |
| 0:29.5 | interesting. He's been Corbant? He's that a good way to put it? There's an attempt to do that. |
| 0:34.5 | But as I said, this is, this is, it's much more interesting, actually. |
| 0:38.7 | And the key thing to say is that with Stama, it really does look now as if we're in the final weeks. |
| 0:47.5 | Because this is, this was a very, very desperate move. |
| 0:50.7 | So Stama is unpopular. |
| 0:52.2 | We discussed this in many, many programs. |
| 0:55.4 | The Labour Party is sinking. It's the most unpopular government, I think, that I can remember in my lifetime. |
| 1:02.0 | Stama is now, I think, he's somewhere equal with Liz's trust at the moment of her failure. I mean, he is |
| 1:09.7 | also massively unpopular. So the Labour Party is short of |
| 1:15.4 | alternatives to replace him with. There is a politician, Andy Burnham, who is the mayor of Manchester. |
| 1:25.0 | Manchester is a big industrial city in the north of England. It's very close to |
| 1:29.9 | Liverpool, by the way. The two cities are fairly close to each other. They represent a kind of |
| 1:35.5 | north-western industrial belt in England, which has been very, very much a Labour heartland and very much a Labour heartland. |
| 1:46.8 | It has its own distinctive politics, its own style of politics, if you like. |
| 1:52.6 | Andy Burnham, who used to be one of Tony Blair's lieutenants, but has now basically morphed, it was somewhat more left-wing figure. |
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