Hi, one of my new years promises to you was to grow the economy, and today we're announcing

the second round of allocations from our leveling up fund, and that's about investing

in local areas in order to create jobs and help to live on that promise to boost growth.

That was the clip that made Rissisunak the second ever Prime Minister to get a fixed penalty

notice while in office. The first was, of course, Boris Johnson.

I'm joined by Aaron Bistani. How are you feeling about seat belt gate?

Underwhelmed, Michael, it's a typically trivial story becoming a UK politics, but politicians

who break the law, that is ultimately quite a big deal.

Well, it's all quite you said that Aaron, because we are going to be talking about it for

the next hour, so you should look through the script. Now, you might as well switch off

a few. We're not talking about, no, I have. We're not talking about Rissisunak at all,

although we are going to talk about leveling up a little bit later in the show and what

he was actually announcing when he wasn't wearing his seat belt. First, though, all about

Keir Starmer at Davos, despite spending decades at the heart of the establishment, Keir Starmer

claims to not like Westminster very much. However, he has found somewhere else, he feels

at home. You have to choose now between Davos or Westminster.

Davos. Why? Because Westminster is too constrained, and it's closed, and we're not having

meaning. Why don't you get out of Westminster, whether it's Davos or anywhere else? You

actually engage with people that you can see working with in the future. Westminster is

just a tribal shouting place. That was Keir Starmer speaking to the

news agents podcast at the World Economic Forum in Davos. That's the annual forum which

brings together the world's financial, political and cultural elites at a fancy ski resort

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