Summary
Today, we look at Keir Starmer revealing the ?first steps? Labour would take if they won the general election. Speaking at an event in Essex, the Labour leader unveiled a pledge card with six key policies, including delivering "economic stability" and providing 40,000 more hospital appointments each week. Starmer rejected claims the party had scaled back its ambitions, and that it was a ?copycat? of Tony Blair who launched his pledge card and went on to win the general election for Labour in 1997.
Adam, Chris and Alex are joined by Steve Reed, the Shadow Environment Secretary.
And find out how Rishi Sunak got on when he braved the panel on ITV?s Loose Women.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, you two. |
| 0:06.6 | Hi. |
| 0:07.1 | Hello. |
| 0:07.6 | Pleased to see me. |
| 0:08.9 | No, I was, you caught me by surprise of it there. |
| 0:11.4 | Well, I was pausing out of politeness so that Alex could go first. |
| 0:14.2 | Ladies first. |
| 0:15.9 | So you know the other day there we started our new feature, which was getting people to email in where they'd seen politicians at gigs. |
| 0:22.4 | Oh, right. |
| 0:23.1 | And then that very night, Anthony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, played a gig in Kiev, almost like he'd been listening to newscast on his armored train from Poland. |
| 0:33.0 | But he might have been. He used to say he wasn't. |
| 0:34.7 | Well, Paul was. He emailed us. He said, I was backstage at Live eight when I got locked in the Port-Alu gents with Charles Kennedy. |
| 0:42.7 | The main door got stuck. We listened to Coldplay saying fix you as we pulled on the |
| 0:47.2 | door with force and eventually freed ourselves. That's quite the story. I mean, there's a whole |
| 0:52.1 | other thing there, not just politicians at gigs, but lockedopton Olu with a politician. I don't know. Could that be a... A side genre. A side genre. |
| 0:59.2 | Here's another one. This is from Alex on email, good name. Last year, I was out in London at a |
| 1:04.6 | Kylie Minogue-themed club night, push the button, and happened to see Labour MP Chris Bryant there. |
| 1:10.3 | As if that wasn't starry enough, |
| 1:12.6 | I also bumped into a certain Mr Adam Fleming too. Yes, I do remember. I do remember that. |
| 1:18.3 | And that was just after Chris Bryant had stood down from the Standards Committee who were |
| 1:23.0 | investigating Boris Johnson about misleading Parliament. And I, after a couple of beers, was like haranguing him about what was going on with that. |
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