Tick tock, Sir Keir’s against the clock
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Following a scorching column by their colleague Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, co-pilots Pearson and Halligan discuss whether Britain is becoming "ungovernable" as sovereign bond yields spiral and the Prime Minister appears increasingly held hostage by the hard-Left of his own party.
Allison questions the mandate of a leader facing internal coups, and a looming wipeout in the upcoming May elections.
Liam warns of a looming correction from the bond markets if the government doesn't get a grip on public spending.
Making a return trip to the rocket is actress and campaigner Sophie Window (nee Winkleman) to share some of her findings in the campaign to keep children off screens and social media.
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Read Allison ‘Anyone who thinks Rayner is the answer to Britain’s problems needs their head examined’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/10/angela-rayner-answer-britain-problems-head-examined/ |
Read Allison ‘Labour says it is cutting NHS waiting lists. That is just a lie’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/11/labour-cutting-nhs-waiting-list-lies/ |
Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/ |
Read Liam ‘Japan’s spendthrift Iron Lady has dangerous plans’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/02/08/japans-spendthrift-iron-lady-has-dangerous-plans/ |
Read more from Liam: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ |
Read Liam’s Substack: https://liamhalligan.substack.com/ |
Read Ambrose Evans-Pritchard ‘The Starmer palace coup is a national disgrace’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/02/10/the-starmer-palace-coup-is-a-national-disgrace/ |
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Five. |
| 0:03.3 | Trust me, when a woman means business, she gets a new haircut. |
| 0:07.0 | Four. |
| 0:08.5 | It's a bit like the bar scene from Star Wars. |
| 0:11.4 | Three. |
| 0:13.0 | Mug inflation is basically Rachel Reeves, isn't it really? |
| 0:17.3 | Two. |
| 0:18.8 | The physical harms of children being on a screen for too long, it's bad for their eyesight, it gives them headaches, it disrupts their hormones. |
| 0:27.5 | One. |
| 0:30.9 | We have left off. |
| 0:34.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Norm with the Telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:38.3 | Hello. |
| 0:39.4 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 0:42.0 | Britain's acquiring a bad reputation for hounding its leaders out of power in rapid succession in a petulant fashion, |
| 0:49.2 | lurching from one set of policies to another with no economic or political compass. |
| 0:55.2 | So writes our distinguished colleague Ambrose Evans Pritchard in Wednesday's |
| 0:59.2 | Telegraph, link in the show notes. |
| 1:01.8 | The destructive falls of Westminster are needlessly pushing Britain towards a guilt crisis, |
| 1:07.0 | a sterling crisis, says Ambrose, and how right he is. |
| 1:11.5 | Starmer's on the ropes, Alison, this is surely now the end game. |
| 1:14.5 | The Prime Minister, I suggest, is unlikely to make it to the end of 2027 as Labour leader and |
| 1:20.1 | Prime Minister, let alone to 2029, the scheduled end of this Parliament. |
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