What’s next for the UK after Starmer?
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Keir Starmer has resigned as British prime minister, private equity executives are borrowing against their future share of profits, and former US Federal Reserve chair Alan Greenspan died at the age of 100. Plus, the FT’s Andean correspondent Joe Daniels traveled to a rural part of Colombia to find out what’s driving the country’s new cocaine boom.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Political Fix: Exit Starmer, enter Burnham
Buyout bosses turn to carried interest loans as payouts stall
What lies behind the new boom in Colombian cocaine
CREDIT: Keir Starmer YouTube page
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:04.2 | Today is Tuesday, June 23rd, and this is your FT News briefing. |
| 0:08.4 | We'll take a look at what a post-Kirstormer U.K. looks like. |
| 0:12.5 | And we've got another signal that private equity is struggling. |
| 0:16.2 | Plus, Colombian voters are fed up with a return of violence in their country. |
| 0:20.9 | I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:32.5 | Kier Starrmer announced yesterday that he's stepping down as UK Prime Minister. |
| 0:37.1 | The question my party is asking now is whether I am best placed to lead us into the next general |
| 0:46.3 | election. I have heard the answer and I accept that answer with good grace. |
| 0:55.2 | The Labor Party leader made the call just days after the crucial Makerfield by-election. |
| 1:00.7 | Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham won that seat in Parliament. |
| 1:04.3 | And it looks like he'll make an uncontested bid for PM. |
| 1:07.5 | Burnham's main competition, former Health Secretary West Streeting, backed down yesterday. |
| 1:12.4 | The F.T.'s Political Fix podcast talked about all this. You're going to hear an excerpt for Monday |
| 1:16.3 | show where the F.T.'s political editor, George Parker, and Deputy Political Editor Jim Pickard, |
| 1:21.5 | joined Whitehall editor Lucy Fisher. They broke down what this all means for the future of |
| 1:25.8 | UK politics. Here's Lucy. |
| 1:28.7 | George, some sense of anxiety, even within Labour, about whether Burnham will be properly tested. |
| 1:35.3 | And it springs to mind for me with Theresa May. |
| 1:38.3 | It was said one of the failings of her administration was that she hadn't been put through her paces properly in a |
| 1:44.6 | leadership contest when she got down to the final two and her rival Andrea Ledson dropped out. |
| 1:50.0 | People in hindsight thought maybe if there'd been more scrutiny of her policy platform, |
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