Who are the new ministers now running our country?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 7 July 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Now that PM Sir Keir Starmer has assembled his first cabinet, the first Labour cabinet in 14 years - who are the people now running the country? What will they do?
Just hours after becoming the Official Opposition, the Tories turn to their next task - who will be their next leader? Contenders have already started to hit the airwaves.
And the second round in France as the far-right National Rally edge closer to parliamentary power.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | This is the White House of the Timbishop Room, getting to connect Prime Minister Stamer to President Biden. |
| 0:17.3 | You are now connected to Air Force One. |
| 0:19.0 | Okay, thank you. |
| 0:26.6 | Mr. Partner, so congratulations. pardon you are now connected to Air Force One okay thank you mr. president congratulations what a hell of victory thank you mr president it's it's been a long night and day I've been busy |
| 0:33.3 | appointing my cabinet during the course of this afternoon. So thank you very much for your |
| 0:38.7 | congratulations. And fortuitously, we will see each other next week. I'm very much looking forward |
| 0:44.4 | to seeing you in Washington and having the opportunity, obviously, to sit down properly. |
| 0:49.8 | I'm looking forward to it as well. There's no doubt to own your leadership. Our two countries are going to |
| 0:54.5 | continue our special relationship. We're working together just about every issue, supporting Ukraine, |
| 1:00.7 | managing the competition with China and advancing cooperation in the Pacific with all cases. |
| 1:05.8 | Firstly, the special relationship is obviously the bedrock always has been for our defense, for our security and prosperity, |
| 1:14.5 | which obviously is central to our... |
| 1:16.5 | You've got to wonder whether for Kiyos Dama, the Prime Minister, that was the moment being connected |
| 1:22.2 | by the White House Situation Room switchboard to Air Force One to speak to the president when it all started to feel |
| 1:29.3 | very, very real. We've got a new government, a new cabinet, and Kyr Starma is appointing the |
| 1:35.3 | rest of his ministerial team. We've also got a Conservative Party leadership contest in its very |
| 1:41.0 | earliest stages. There is so much politics to come and to talk about. Welcome to a whole |
| 1:47.6 | new political era. Welcome to the news agents. The news agents. It's Lewis. It's John. It's Emily. |
| 2:00.0 | And that call told us, first of all, that Kirstama heard the word special relationship from |
| 2:07.2 | Joe Biden before he had to say them himself. |
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