Summary
Sir Keir Starmer chats to Laura K and a group of ex-Labour voters, all selected by an independent polling company. They talk trust in politicians, employment and education, among other subjects. Will the Labour Leader be able to reconnect with voters? Today's Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with Georgia Coan. The Editor is Dino Sofos.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Well this week we did something unusual on newscast. |
| 0:07.8 | We spoke to the Labour leader, Sir Kere Starmer. |
| 0:10.3 | That's not exactly unusual, I hear you cry, but we went on the road. |
| 0:14.0 | Not just unusual after 18 months of a pandemic and basically being stuck like everyone else in the same area all the time. |
| 0:20.5 | But we went with Kirstammer to Blackpool for the first of a whole series of events |
| 0:25.4 | that he's going to do through the summer talking to voters. The question I'm |
| 0:30.0 | going to ask myself reflecting on tonight is given that this is a group of people who |
| 0:35.0 | didn't vote Labour last time, have I persuaded them to begin to think, to begin to |
| 0:40.3 | think about whether they might vote Labour again in the future. |
| 0:44.0 | We weren't just lucky to be hearing from voters in real life, but lucky to be the first in that |
| 0:48.7 | incredible space after a renovation of the amazing splendid room with gold everywhere because yes it is |
| 0:56.6 | the strictly ballroom where the come dancing team go once a year for their gala finale. This is in lots of ways a very special |
| 1:09.0 | newscast. Welcome to Strictly Starmer. |
| 1:11.7 | Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. He's got a massive Welcome to Strictly Starmer. Newscast. |
| 1:12.8 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:14.3 | He's got a massive, massive job to do, |
| 1:16.5 | to get people to vote labor again. |
| 1:18.3 | I have no idea what labor are doing for Blackpool. |
| 1:20.2 | I was accusing him in my mind of not having any personality or not much charisma and he did. |
| 1:26.0 | Both of those things, which was impressive. |
| 1:29.0 | So, you know, I'm warmed and hopeful. |
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