Starmer the charmer

Wake Up to Money

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4.4 • 754 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

A defence spending boost seems to have put the UK in Donald Trump's good books, but Felicity Hannah asks if Keir Starmer has done enough to secure a trade deal and avoid tariffs.

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0:00.0	Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, so I'd like to tell you where you'll find more just like it.
0:05.5	I'm Izzy Lee Poulton, an assistant commissioner for BBC Sounds, which means I'm involved in the whole podcast making process.
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0:42.3	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:46.1	Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.
0:48.4	Hello, welcome to Wake Up to Money.
0:53.1	Has Keir Stama been demonstrating the art of the deal in Washington, D.C.? Trump thinks a U.S.-UK. trade deal could come soon.
0:57.0	We've had great discussions on trade, and I think we're going to have a deal done rather quickly,
1:01.0	as quickly as it can be done. We're going to have something, I think, rather quickly. We expect to do that.
1:06.3	Rather quickly. A fresh report on HS2 asks if the project can be completed in its current form. We'll
1:12.6	find out how it got so off track. And Mark Zuckerberg's trying a new strategy to take on TikTok,
1:18.6	but will it leave them reeling? Wake Up to Money with Felicity Hannah. Good morning. Welcome to
1:24.6	Wake Up to Money on Friday the 28th of February. Last day of February,
1:29.1	it is four minutes past five. And yes, we will be talking HS2 later on in the show because there is
1:35.8	an extremely damning report, a report that does not pull its punches out from the Public Accounts
1:42.5	Committee this morning saying HS2, high speed
1:45.7	two rail line is an example of how not to run a major project. Ouch. So I was wondering this
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