Why does Keir Starmer keep agreeing with Nigel Farage?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Keir Starmer has shaken up his core team in Downing Street today. It's an attempt to grip the agenda, improve the government's messaging and take on Nigel Farage after a difficult first year in office.
"Delivery, delivery, delivery" was what the Prime Minister said was the government's priority for the year ahead - but deliver what? There is a debate taking place in the Labour party between those who believe a more progressive case is needed, that you don't beat Farage by apeing his talking points.
Others are convinced that it is only by addressing these concerns that you can stop them from splintering off to Reform. Will today's reset get us any closer to revealing which side of that divide the PM is on?
Later, what the fevered online speculation about Donald Trump's health this weekend tells us about the White House - has there been a cover up or was it just a campaign by an army of trolls?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. It is a new parliamentary term and Kirstama has pressed |
| 0:17.5 | the reset button. A new beginning for a Labour government |
| 0:21.5 | that's already been in power for 14 months. |
| 0:24.2 | But will it make any difference? |
| 0:26.2 | I think here, a year on in, what I would say is |
| 0:28.6 | we spent the first year sort of fixing the foundations, |
| 0:32.3 | if you like, doing the hard yards. |
| 0:34.4 | But we now enter into sort of phase two of the government, which is where we focus |
| 0:39.2 | on delivery, delivery, delivery, and start to show what a difference the Labor government |
| 0:44.1 | really makes. |
| 0:45.5 | A new team, a new message, and the promise of delivery. |
| 0:50.4 | But delivering what? |
| 0:52.2 | Do they know the story they're trying to tell yet? |
| 0:55.7 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:01.8 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:03.5 | It's John. |
| 1:04.1 | It's Emily. |
| 1:04.8 | And she returns finally after her long sojourn away. |
| 1:09.1 | We thought you've lost your passport, but you haven't. My pass. And it's very nice. Your passport and your pass, obviously, both very important. It's good to have you back. I just wonder, a month away, I know you've been consuming the news while they've been away. Does Britain feel different, look different? Do you see it from a different perspective from having been out the country? I leave you known for five minutes. I thought you'd kill Donald Trump. We are, I promise you, |
| 1:30.2 | going to come to Donald Trump and whether we've killed him off later in the podcast. But, go on, |
| 1:35.0 | does Britain look different? Very. Yeah, very. It's odd, isn't it? Just seeing it from afar and sort of |
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