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The Owen Jones Podcast

Wes Streeting Launches COUP Against Starmer - w/. Ash Sarkar

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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0:00.0

So Westrying is going to go for the Crown, the Labour leadership, indeed the Prime Minister of this country.

0:06.6

West Street, he could be running the country in a matter of weeks.

0:10.0

He's set to challenge Kier Stama, who is, as things stand the Prime Minister, not for long, probably.

0:17.6

Interesting. He could, West Streeting had this kind of coup underway yesterday.

0:23.1

His MPs, allies were sending out their letters and resigning. And, um, he today went to

0:30.3

Downing Street, kind of left looking like someone had told them to F off after 20 minutes.

0:34.5

And if you had a 20 minute meeting you got kind of go in and you know

0:37.8

faff about it first i would imagine it was not a very constructive meeting with the prime

0:42.9

minister um he said he's not going to do his leadership bid today basically because it would

0:47.4

overshadow the king's speech but then he briefed it anyway so it did anyway that's my tldr

0:52.6

ash far car is my brilliant guest from navarre she doesn't

0:55.7

really didn't need any introduction if you don't know if she is then you know there's no help for you

0:59.6

what a delight ash how you doing i'm very well i'm very well i've i've really been enjoying the

1:05.6

last week um first it was for quite wholesome reasons, which is I really love British elections.

1:12.6

Like I love the amateurism of it and how low fire it is and everyone's like running around

1:17.1

with paper ballots.

1:18.1

Like I love that shit.

1:19.1

And then the second thing that I love is that when you have a news day where the entire

1:25.6

thing is composed of, here's an MP that you've never heard of,

1:29.3

now calling on the Prime Minister to go, is that you just learn people exist and you go,

1:35.3

these are like auto-generated names.

1:38.3

I know, yeah.

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