Two and a bit world leaders: Putin, Xi and Starmer
This Is Why
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4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by Sky’s Asia correspondent Nicole Johnston in Beijing and Sky’s Moscow correspondent Ivor Bennett to discuss the highlights of the summit so far.
Plus, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer made a key speech to lay out six pledges ahead of his election campaign. Sky’s deputy political editor Sam Coates joins Niall to unpick the key moments.
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Editor: Paul Stanworth
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| 1:03.9 | I'm Neil Patterson. |
| 1:05.1 | Welcome to the Daily, where you wait ages for a world leader |
| 1:08.4 | and then three turn up at once. |
| 1:10.4 | Well, technically two and a half. |
| 1:12.7 | China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin have been meeting in Beijing, |
| 1:16.9 | promoting their alliance and their new world order away from the West. |
| 1:21.6 | We'll be speaking to our Moscow and Asia correspondence just a little later. |
| 1:25.9 | But closer to home, Secure Stamer had a big day. Not quite a world leader just yet little later. But closer to home, Sirkeir Stamer had a big day, not quite |
| 1:29.7 | a world leader just yet, though given the polls, he can probably smell the coffee served at G7 |
| 1:36.0 | summits already. Today, he set out his six priorities, if slash when, he becomes prime |
| 1:43.2 | minister. |
| 1:49.8 | Deliver economic stability, cut waiting times, launch a new border security command, |
| 1:56.2 | set up great British energy, crack down on anti-social behaviour and recruit six and a half thousand new teachers. But is this grand plan as bold as might initially appear? Sam Coates is our deputy |
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