Starmer Seeks Relief On The World Stage
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Sir Keir Starmer has survived to the end of a torrid week - will he find solace focusing on the internatonal agenda?
Ed Vaizey unpacks the politics of the day with Alys Denby and Michael Binyon.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Edvese and we're going to be unpacking the politics of the day from Starmer's war with the civil service to Trump's war with climate scientists and pepper pigs war with sausage roll eaters. |
| 0:17.0 | Seems like the only two people still getting along. |
| 0:20.0 | Other times leader writer Michael Binion, welcome to the show Michael |
| 0:23.6 | Thank you |
| 0:24.1 | An opinion and features editor at City AM Alice Denby |
| 0:28.0 | Hello |
| 0:28.5 | Hello Alice |
| 0:29.4 | This is the radio |
| 0:31.0 | People don't see us on the radio |
| 0:32.9 | But Alice you're concerned about your camera angles |
| 0:35.0 | Oh God, you're exposing me now |
| 0:36.9 | Sometimes Times Radio sneakily put a video clip of you online. |
| 0:41.5 | And some of the camera angles in the studio are more flattering than others. |
| 0:44.6 | I'm extremely vain and I'm not ashamed of it. |
| 0:47.2 | Who knew? |
| 0:48.4 | I think you look wonderful from either angle. |
| 0:50.9 | But this is a going full YouTube eventually, isn't it? |
| 0:54.0 | Yes, we're doing this thing where everything is visual, which I thought was completely not to the point of radio. I thought the point of radio was you sat in your car listening to the radio, not watching a YouTube video. Yes, yes. You can't sort of scratch your face or do anything if you're on. But it'll have to make you think, Michael, about not coming in in your old tweed jacket i know i know i have to put a nice you know i mean it's |
| 1:15.7 | coming from you ed coming from you in a t-shirt yeah fairly scruffy what have you got a hoodie on the |
| 1:21.6 | back of your chair a sort of hoodie yes it's a sort of fleecy shirt uh hugo rifkin is very |
| 1:27.3 | badly dressed there is he yeah he's a terrible dress fleecy shirt. Hugo Rifkin is very badly dressed, though. |
| 1:28.1 | Is he? |
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