What Keir Starmer can't say - New Statesman editor Tom McTague on his new profile of the Prime Minister
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🗓️ 12 June 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Keir Starmer had tears in his eyes as he spoke of the death of his brother.
The Prime Minister was talking with the New Statesman's new editor, Tom McTague, about how his personal life informs how he runs the country.
Tom has spent weeks accompanying and interviewing Keir Starmer for an extensive profile published in the latest issue of the New Statesman.
In this extended interview, Tom speaks with deputy editor Will Lloyd to discuss what he learned about the man who leads the government.
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| 0:34.5 | The New Statesman. Over the past few weeks, the New Statesman. |
| 0:43.0 | Over the past few weeks, the New Statesman's new editor, Tom McTag, has been profiling Kier Stama, the Prime Minister. |
| 0:45.3 | The feature, which is the cover story of this week's magazine, available from all good news |
| 0:51.3 | retailers and vendors, draws on four interviews with Kirstama. You traveled with him |
| 0:56.7 | on land, on sea, in the air, wearing a strange jumpsuit, and you've worked to capture the |
| 1:03.2 | internal logic of the Prime Minister. You've worked to try and understand what the core |
| 1:07.4 | purpose of this government is as it approaches its one year anniversary. |
| 1:11.7 | I'm Will Lloyd's, the deputy of the new statesman. Tom joins me here in our studio. Hello. |
| 1:15.9 | Hello. Thanks for having me. Now, I trailed for our listeners there that you and Sakeer Stama |
| 1:22.5 | were in some fairly cinematic locations together. You call it at one point, top gun for social Democrats. |
| 1:29.3 | Where have you been? Where have you taken? Where has our Prime Minister taken you? |
| 1:33.4 | Well, I remember getting the call actually and say, would you like to join the Prime Minister |
| 1:37.4 | on a trip to an aircraft carrier? And I thought, God, yes, I want to go into an aircraft carrier. |
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