Starmer Tells Laura the NHS is Broken

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re looking at what Keir Starmer has to say about the state of the NHS and its future.

Laura sat down with the PM for his first major television interview since getting the job. He told her the previous government ‘broke’ the NHS in ways which were ‘unforgiveable’.

She chats it through with Paddy.

We'll be dropping the full interview next in your Newscast feed.

Plus, they take a look at how big a rebellion could be over winter fuel payment cuts that could affect around 10 million pensioners..

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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell. It was made by Chris Flynn and Arsenii Sokolov. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	We've bounced back with Laura Kunsberg for the weekend newscaskers, you've been off.
0:09.4	I have been off and I'm very happy to be back.
0:12.0	I feel we're being gloriously reunited. It's extremely nice to see you
0:15.2	although I saw you on the television quite a few times over the break which was very exciting.
0:18.8	Yes that's a sort of trial but in every sense especially for the viewer but Parliament's been off there's been a lot
0:24.8	happening and you have been out on Matt Chorley's new program on Five Live with some of your
0:29.5	analysis here it is we can hear some. There isn't there an argument about whether or not
0:32.2	potatoes or a vegetable? Well if you had potatoes I would have said you could have Here it is, we can hear some. There isn't an argument about whether not potatoes
0:32.7	of a vegetable?
0:33.4	Well, if you had potatoes, I would have said
0:34.7	you could have potatoes and chips and mash.
0:37.4	Oh, yeah.
0:38.0	Right?
0:38.6	It's chips not, isn't it?
0:39.6	No.
0:40.1	Well, you can't, I mean.
0:41.4	That's an entirely separate category well you know I mean I can tell you about
0:47.4	avocados and tomatoes definitely not their fruit there's more you see Matt Tule who's got a new program just in case anybody.
0:54.5	Well there's no one who didn't know about that. I went on yesterday to talk
0:59.9	about what we're doing this weekend, but I came on after a quiz about vegetables and you
1:07.0	know me I felt unable to resist politics, pomegranates.
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