Starmer on Zelensky, Trump and Putin
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Today, we unpack Sir Keir Starmer’s interview with Laura about Donald Trump’s row with Volodymyr Zelensky, and Europe’s plan to make a Ukraine peace deal happen.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | So one of the three people in this room has met the Prime Minister this morning. |
| 0:08.9 | It wasn't me. |
| 0:09.6 | Nick, was it you? |
| 0:10.6 | It was not me. |
| 0:12.0 | I wonder who it might have been. |
| 0:13.9 | It was me and the viewers of BBC One. |
| 0:15.5 | So how was he? |
| 0:17.8 | Well, I think that Keir Starrmer is in Kier-Starmer is in Kirstarmer full-on, I'm handling a serious crisis mode. |
| 0:26.6 | Something a bit like the Kirstarmer that we saw when he was handling the summer riots. |
| 0:30.6 | And something that the people around him say is him kind of at his best, completely focused, |
| 0:35.6 | trying to get things done, going at a million miles an error, no tolerance for silliness, I was told, and completely, as he said, lots of times |
| 0:43.4 | in his interview, focused on the central thing, which is trying to create a lasting piece |
| 0:47.1 | in Ukraine. And I think a lot of people will watch it. Obviously, I have no views, but I think |
| 0:50.8 | a lot of people will watch it and think, you know what, that was probably one of his best outings as Prime Minister in terms of the clarity of what he was trying |
| 0:58.6 | to say and how he communicated it. And in contrast to a bad start, say loyalists to the Kirsteimer |
| 1:05.4 | government elected last year by a sort of loveless landslide, it's said. So much to discuss in Sunday's newscast. |
| 1:13.1 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:15.5 | I like landscapes. |
| 1:16.4 | I don't think I'm being rude. |
| 1:17.7 | Japping, unemployed people who are overweight. |
| 1:20.2 | That is not the agenda. |
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