Starmer’s reverse ferret to the Right
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Following Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s ‘strangers in our own land’ speech this week, your co-pilots give their take on his apparent change of heart on migration.
Allison isn't convinced by the PM’s reverse ferret and thinks it’s less convincing than ‘Meg Ryan’s simulated orgasm’ - is Starmer gaslighting voters?
Meanwhile Liam thinks Starmer’s team knew exactly how the speech would be received by the Left of Labour and was sending a message.
Plus hopping on board the rocket of right thinking this week is Shadow Business and Trade Secretary, Andrew Griffith, who makes the case for banishing red tape for British businesses - do we need a UK DOGE?
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.0 | What does it take to get a North London international human rights and open borders deputy |
| 0:16.2 | to channel and access his inner far-right thug? |
| 0:20.5 | I think we're all a bit more missed. The government, Salib Duk. to channel and access his inner far-right thug. Four. |
| 0:21.4 | I think we're all a bit more miffed. |
| 0:23.4 | Is that the government, Salid, do Keir Starmers' lap, to be brutally honest? |
| 0:26.9 | Three. |
| 0:28.2 | I've got your back. |
| 0:29.7 | Yes, all the better to put a pickaxe between your shoulder blades, chaps. |
| 0:33.6 | Two. |
| 0:35.0 | What's particularly galling is that Stama tried so hard to reverse Brexit measures. |
| 0:45.4 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:52.4 | Hello. |
| 0:53.4 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 0:55.2 | Talk about changing your tune co-pilot. |
| 0:58.6 | From the moment he entered Parliament in 2015, |
| 1:01.3 | Kier Stama was determined to stop Brexit, |
| 1:04.1 | maintaining freedom of movement between the UK and the European Union. |
| 1:08.2 | After the Leave vote the following year, 2016, |
| 1:12.9 | Stama went into overdrive, |
| 1:18.4 | spearheading parliamentary efforts to overturn the express will of the British electorate before it had even been implemented, and he and much of the Labour Party very nearly succeeded. |
| 1:24.4 | But having been hammered by Nigel Farage's Reform Party in recent local elections, |
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