The Keir Starmer 2026 Interview
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
As the new year begins, Laura's had a long chat with the Prime Minister Keir Starmer. There's speculation about his future, but he says he'll see out the year in the job.
The interview was recorded on Saturday, as the news about President Nicolás Maduro's capture was breaking. Laura also asks Starmer if he's is supportive of Donald Trump's actions.
And, how does he see the UK's future relationship with the EU?
This is the interview in full. There's a regular episode of Newscast on the way later today!
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| 0:21.2 | Hi, everyone. As you know, every now and again on newscast, we like to bring you a really long |
| 0:26.8 | old chat, the full version of one of the conversations that we have with some of our |
| 0:31.3 | interviewees. And on Saturday the 3rd of January, 26, I went to Downing Street to sit down |
| 0:37.1 | with Kirstearner, who wanted to talk about, 2026, I went to Downing Street to sit down with Kier Starrmer, who wanted to talk about |
| 0:39.7 | why 2026 will be better than his political nightmare of 2025. Can he turn it around? What might |
| 0:48.0 | happen in Ukraine? What does he really want to do with our relationship with the EU? And what about |
| 0:53.6 | that troublesome friendship with |
| 0:55.5 | his political chum, Donald Trump? Here it is my conversation with Sir Kier Stammer, as he hopes |
| 1:01.7 | to strike a much more cheery tone and put the bad times of 2025 behind him. |
| 1:14.6 | Prime Minister 2026 could transform or perhaps even terminate your leadership. So I wonder, |
| 1:20.6 | what's your New Year's resolution? Well, I'm looking forward to 2026. I think it's going to be the year when we turn a corner as a country. |
| 1:30.3 | A lot of the decisions we took in 2025 will come into force effectively in 2026. |
| 1:38.3 | And I think that for many people who've waited 16, 17 long years for their living standards to improve, for their |
| 1:46.3 | public services to improve, they need now to feel the change. |
| 1:51.4 | And that's what 2026 is going to be about. |
| 1:54.0 | We've talked about renewing the country. |
| 1:56.4 | That will become a reality. |
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