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The Duran Podcast

Under the bus McSweeney. Starmer regime scrambles to keep power

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🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Under the bus McSweeney. Starmer regime scrambles to keep power


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0:00.0

All right, Alexander, let's discuss Sir Kier Stomer, the resignation of his chief of staff,

0:08.7

Morgan McSweeney.

0:10.9

I guess we could say this is the combo of the Olensky curse and the Mandelson-Ebstein curse.

0:18.8

I guess they both had to team up in order to knock out at least

0:24.3

the chief of staff of Stomers, who is, from what I understand, a very powerful politician

0:30.9

in the establishment in the UK.

0:33.2

But he's resigned, and the rumors are that Stammer could be resigning any time this week.

0:41.4

Some people are even saying he might resign today or tomorrow.

0:44.2

I'm not sure he's going to give some big speech.

0:46.8

I think either this afternoon or tomorrow and some people are thinking 50-50, the markets

0:54.0

have it at 50-50 that he could be resigning.

0:56.7

What are your thoughts?

0:57.9

Well, first of all, let me just say that you're absolutely right.

1:00.6

This is a combo of the Epstein-Mandelson curse and of the Olensky curse.

1:06.3

The Elensky Curse, by the way, has played a very, very big role in this. One of the reasons why Stama

1:14.3

is where he is, is because his popularity over the last two years, well, year and a half

1:21.6

since he was elected, Prime Minister, has completely drained away. And the reason it has completely drained away is because

1:30.3

everybody could see that even as the economy collapses, even as the living standards continue to fall,

1:36.3

even as things go from bad to worse in Britain, the Prime Minister Kirstama is mostly focused

1:43.3

on project Ukraine.

1:45.5

People have become increasingly disillusioned and angry about this.

1:49.5

We've discussed in previous programs how even his MPs, his parliamentary party, have recently

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