The Week: Is Starmer's Leadership In Question?

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Adam is joined by Chris, Faisal and Ailbhe Rae, Political Editor of The New Statesman to wrap up the week.

This episode of Newscast was recorded as part of our 25-hour Podcast-a-thon for Children in Need.

Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. The presenter was Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Joe Wilkinson. The social producer was Grace Braddock. 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.
0:05.7	Hello, this is your Friday edition of Newscast, The Podcast.
0:09.9	As usual, it is our regular catch-up of the big political stories of the week,
0:15.4	looking at angles we might have missed and just working out what all the events add up to. What is irregular about
0:23.4	it is that we recorded it in the middle of our 25 hour long newscast podcast athon, which we did
0:31.6	live on BBC Sounds and I player after accepting the challenge from PUDZ for this year's children in need.
0:38.8	So that is why you'll hear lots of references to things taking a very long time
0:42.4	and me potentially being very tired and maybe a little bit grumpy
0:46.0	in your Friday edition of Newscast recorded on Thursday, Tita.
0:50.8	Newscast.
0:51.4	Newscast from the BBC.
0:53.1	Fat boy sliver me in the classroom doing our violin lessons. I was the tattle tail in the class. Can I have an apology please? I trust almost nobody. That daddy has to sometimes do strong language. Next time in Moscow. I feel delulu with no salulu. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey.
1:29.4	Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. And it's Chris in the studio. And Faisal in the studio. And joining us is Alva Ray, the political editor of the New Statesman magazine. Hello, Alva. Hello. Thanks for having me. And thank you also for coming to our live show that we did at the Edinburgh Festival in the summer. That was great. One of my colleagues bumped into you in a show.
1:29.9	Yeah. Yeah.
1:29.9	Yeah.
1:31.0	The show that we did at the Edinburgh Festival in the summer. That was great. One of my colleagues bumped into you in a show. Yeah. The show that was the talk of the fringe, we each had good taste. Kat Cohen, who's big in the States. She wasn't as big here. Yeah, I bumped into her. Or she messaged me after saying, were you at Kat Cohen? Are you around? And that was great. I think that's the
1:44.9	closest I'll get to
1:45.7	ever doing an Edinburgh Fringe show. I mean, it was great, fun. Not that funny. Yeah, and also it was only 45 minutes long, which compared to 25 hours seems like light size. Right. The focus for the first part of this episode, Chris is going to be
2:00.0	what on earth is going on with
2:02.6	Kirstarmer. Yeah. So let's rewind the focus for the first part of this episode, Chris, is going to be what on earth is going on
2:02.4	with Gyr Stormer. Yeah. So let's rewind the clock back a bit to the briefings that were
2:09.0	circulating amongst Westminster journalists earlier on in the week.
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