Starmer's Cabinet Showdown
Talk Breakfast
Ricky Freelove
4.3 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Jeremy Kyle reacts as Starmer vowed to get on with governing, despite open Labour revolt, a ministerial resignation, and 78 MPs demanding departure. Borrowing costs rose amid leadership uncertainty and global oil pressures, while allies warned destabilisation would hurt households. Speculation over Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham intensified, as critics said Starmer risks handing momentum to Farage.
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| 0:00.0 | We say a very good morning. |
| 0:08.4 | There is much hilarity amongst Tory ranks. |
| 0:11.2 | I mean, Tories are not known to smile. |
| 0:12.9 | So much so that Matt Vickers, Deputy Chairman's arrived this morning, |
| 0:15.8 | looking like Starmer yesterday and a rolled up shirt. |
| 0:18.3 | What's going on, kidder? |
| 0:19.3 | We've gone casual. |
| 0:20.3 | It's Tuesday. It's sunny outside. It's a beautiful day outside. Oh, hold on. Sorry. Is that somebody at the door? Oh, I'm very worried today because the door could knock and three people could come in and say, Jess, it's all over. We're on sack watch here. Any minute. Any minute. Any minute. Well, we've waited for this for weeks, haven't we? We've been told he's not going to last any longer. He's got another week left and it carried on. But you summarised it perfectly. All of a sudden, these Labour MPs who were willing to walk through lobbies and vote and back him when he was taking it out and our pensioners went to fuel, when he didn't want that grooming gang's inquiry, when he wanted to see our veterans from Northern Ireland dragged through the courts, they didn't have the backbone then. They weren't wanting to stand up to him. But now, after they see these election results come in, they see their job on the line, all of a sudden they're a cock-a-hoop and he's got to go, I mean, it's infuriating, |
| 1:11.5 | actually, when you see what this government has done to this country in, what, two years? |
| 1:15.4 | It was really, disastrous. It was really astonishing as we went off air yesterday. He stood up |
| 1:19.6 | and he did his speech, and I feel like him today, because I've got the white shirt on, |
| 1:22.6 | the sleeves rolled up. Quentin Lett, I can't find it now, but it was the most, I mean, he's my favourite |
| 1:28.7 | journalist behind Sarah Byne on a par. And he said, it was extraordinary because the Prime |
| 1:33.8 | Minister started with such verve. And then, as is usual, as the gravy cooled, we ended up |
| 1:39.8 | with this congealed mess of nothing. Now, there was a moment in the speech I want to play for you when |
| 1:45.7 | he sort of said, I have my doubters, but I will fight. And he waited for applause. And there was |
| 1:50.9 | just this is it. This sums up Kea Stama completely. Have a watch. Have a listen. |
| 1:55.3 | I know that people are frustrated by the state of Britain, frustrated by politics, and some people frustrated with me. |
| 2:09.3 | I know I have my doubters, and I know I need to prove them wrong, and I will. |
| 2:21.3 | No, no round of applause. How? The thing that came out in that speech and I heard Julia say it so brilliantly yesterday is how? Suddenly you're going to |
| 2:25.9 | nationalise British steel which could have been done 10 years ago. Suddenly you're going to get |
| 2:29.6 | closer to Europe which again is completely against what I said this to Zia Yusuf yesterday, and I expect you to agree with me. |
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