What Are Labour Essaying?
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Labour’s internal wranglings ahead of party conference John McDonnell talks to Laura, Adam and Chris about Keir Starmer, internal party politics and how to win the next general election, ahead of the Labour party conference. But the big question is, will he be taking his trombone? And Laura spills the beans about her trip across the Atlantic and how Boris Johnson was received by the UN and in particular in meetings with US president Joe Biden Today’s Newscast was made by Maz Ebtehaj, Caitlin Hanrahan and Danny Wittenberg. Jonathan Aspinwall is the Editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | You know how politicians are sometimes criticized and people go, oh, you muppet, why did you |
| 0:09.2 | see that? |
| 0:10.2 | Yes. |
| 0:11.2 | Well, you know that phrase at the jury at the moment lean in. |
| 0:13.9 | Well, Boris Johnson sort of lent into that by actually quoting the muppets. |
| 0:18.8 | When he was at, I can't believe I'm saying this, you're a nice nation's general assembly. |
| 0:23.6 | Here's how it went. |
| 0:25.5 | And come at the front, come at the front, sang, it's not easy being green. |
| 0:35.4 | You remember that one? |
| 0:37.8 | I want you to know that he was wrong. |
| 0:41.8 | He was wrong. |
| 0:43.6 | It is easy. |
| 0:44.6 | It's not easy. |
| 0:45.6 | It's lucrative and it's right to be green. |
| 0:47.9 | He will, but he was also unnecessarily rude to miss Piggy, I thought, uh, come at the |
| 0:52.1 | front. |
| 0:53.1 | Do you remember that one? |
| 0:56.1 | It wasn't matched with an overwhelming wall of noise. |
| 0:58.8 | Well, you have to also remember at the United Nations meetings, lots of the very august |
| 1:03.3 | world leaders who are sitting there have got simultaneous translation. |
| 1:07.6 | And the next sentence then went on to talk about softacles. |
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