Starmer Starts Military Plans for Peace in Ukraine
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today, Laura and Paddy discuss UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s virtual summit with the ‘coalition of the willing’.
Downing Street say representatives from 26 countries joined the Prime Minister this morning to discuss bolstering support for Ukraine by moving military planning to an “operational phase”. But is Russia any closer to agreeing a ceasefire deal? And how strong is a coalition with no US backstop?
And, can Keir Starmer succeed in building coalition within his own party? Laura’s been looking at different Labour factions - and potential cabinet fall-outs - ahead of cuts to welfare spending to be announced next week.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Paddy, somebody whose voice newscasters might remember said something about you on Thursday. |
| 0:10.2 | Should we listen? |
| 0:10.8 | Yes. |
| 0:11.1 | Secretary of State. |
| 0:11.9 | Hello. |
| 0:12.5 | Hello. |
| 0:13.3 | Is it true, you've just been interviewed by Paddy O'Connell because he's doing Newsnight tonight? |
| 0:17.6 | I have. |
| 0:18.5 | And let me tell you, Adam, I'm outraged. |
| 0:20.5 | Why? |
| 0:21.2 | He has just compared me to the fat controller. |
| 0:25.2 | Now, I know I've put on a few pounds in the last eight months. |
| 0:28.2 | That's what this job, ironically, being the health secretary, has done to me. |
| 0:31.9 | But to be fat-shamed like this on national television, I tell you, I'm never doing |
| 0:36.1 | news night again. |
| 0:38.4 | And let me tell you, it'm never doing news night again. And let me tell you, |
| 0:43.8 | it's lucky he's not here. Otherwise, I would have boycotted newscast. Well, okay. Despite being among my favourite podcasts. Paddy, Paddy is the weekend newscast. This is the weekday newscast. |
| 0:48.8 | Yeah, well, anyway, I'm going to boycotting the weekend now. |
| 0:54.5 | Is there anything you want to say to the Secretary of State for Health? |
| 0:57.9 | Well, certainly, sorry, if and for any offence caused. |
| 1:04.2 | He did leave in very good spirits from the encounter. |
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