What does Keir Starmer actually believe?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 14 February 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Despite Keir Starmer's long march to Downing Street, there is so much we don't know about our Prime Minister. His media presence, and his Downing Street, is more guarded than the PMs who have preceded him. He has worn many different political personalities on his journey from lawyer, to the House of Commons, to leader of the opposition - he has evolved as his journey to No 10 took shape.
What drives him? What are his fundamental principles? Who are his real allies? Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire have an arguably clearer picture than anyone except the man himself. Their new book 'Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer' attempts to get beneath the skin of the man running our country.
They sat down with Lewis to try and answer some of those questions.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.8 | Who is Kea Stama? |
| 0:14.2 | For me, that remains the great unanswered question of British politics. |
| 0:19.2 | This is a man who is dominant and yet without shape. |
| 0:22.6 | Central but silent, famous but unknown. In many ways, his is the story of British politics |
| 0:29.4 | these last years, but it is a story like the man without definition. Until now, perhaps. |
| 0:36.4 | Patrick McGuire and Gabriel Pogrand, two young but |
| 0:39.3 | impressive political journalists, have established themselves as the chroniclers of the Stama project. |
| 0:44.8 | They've just written a book, Get In, the inside story of Labour under Starma, which is filling |
| 0:50.2 | the headlines with the scoops from its pages. So, we thought we'd bring them into the newsagents studio to talk them through the long |
| 0:57.8 | March to Downing Street for Kirstama and where he might journey next. |
| 1:02.8 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:07.3 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:08.9 | Well, we're joined now by the Woodward and Bernstein of Labor Politics, which is, of course, |
| 1:13.6 | Patrick McGuire and Gabriel Prognon. |
| 1:14.9 | I've got your book, your opus in my hands. |
| 1:17.6 | Get in. |
| 1:18.1 | Your second book about recent Labour history, of course. |
| 1:20.9 | After doing all that, why do you want to do another one? |
| 1:22.5 | The difficult second album, yeah. |
| 1:24.0 | No, it's, well, almost the moment we finished our book on jeremy corbin left out you are |
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