Starmer shows off for Trump as ‘no confidence’ in him spreads
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
With a Trump state visit, an axed Ambassador and Labour polling in third in the upcoming Welsh election there is no shortage of news to wade through, and your co-pilots are here to steer you through it all!
Allison questions the chances of Andy Burnham being able to challenge Starmer for the Premiership, having to rely on a by-election which could be won by Reform, while polling in Wales is showing a battle between Plaid Cymru and Reform who are looking to depose Welsh Labour.
Meanwhile Liam shares his frustration at Labour’s delaying of the Autumn Statement until November, with inflation still higher in the UK than the eurozone the Bank of England could make a major mistake in lowering interest rates.
And Molly Kingsley makes a return visit to the rocket to discuss UsForThem, a group calling for the needs of children to be prioritised in response to decisions on Coronavirus, and her new campaign to save children from the harms of social media and smart phones.
Read Allison ‘Britain’s decent majority are not racist, they’re just terrified of losing the country they love’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/16/unite-the-kingdom-britains-decent-majority-are-not-racist/ |
Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/ |
Read Liam ‘Bank of England’s bond selling spree is making matters worse’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/09/14/bank-of-england-bond-buying-spree-making-matters-worse/ |
Read more from Liam: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ |
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| 0:51.8 | If reform totally humiliate and wipe out labour in Labour's stronghold, |
| 0:59.5 | then the momentum towards the general election three years later will be remarkable. |
| 1:06.0 | Four. |
| 1:07.3 | The Conservatives have brought forward a fantastic, I think, suite of amendments, |
| 1:12.6 | which would give parents the right, a legal right, to opt out of digital homework. |
| 1:18.7 | Three. |
| 1:19.7 | A collapsing deck chair of slapstick incompetence. |
| 1:24.5 | U-turn after U-turn, winter fuel allowance, welfare cut. |
| 1:29.8 | Watching Labour managed the economy, and it doesn't give me any pleasure to say this, |
| 1:34.2 | it's like watching a slow-motion car crash. |
| 1:41.6 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. |
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