Why has Starmer’s Downing Street already fallen apart?
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🗓️ 7 October 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Sue Gray's resignation might have come as a surprise to some but as rumours swirled about mounting hostility towards her inside Number 10, her departure was inevitable. So, what will her exit mean for Keir Starmer? And what does the latest shake up in No 10 reveal about the mood behind the scenes?
And, 12 months on from the 7th October attacks in Israel, we ask whether we're any closer to peace in the Middle East?
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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. |
| 0:12.8 | As Tony Blair said in a different context, a new dawn has broken, has it not? |
| 0:19.4 | In Downing Street today, it's the changing of the guard. The palace |
| 0:24.3 | intrigue has been sort of resolved and some anonymous names with huge amounts of power |
| 0:31.5 | have been shifted around in what was a bloodbath with Kirstama having to intervene in the squabbling and power struggle |
| 0:42.9 | that has racked his government so soon after coming to power. |
| 0:48.0 | Sue Gray, known initially to most people as the scourge of Boris Johnson during Partigate, |
| 0:53.9 | was Kirstama's chief of staff. |
| 0:56.4 | After less than 100 days in office, she is gone and replaced by his new right-hand man, |
| 1:03.9 | Morgan McSweeney, who headed up Labor's general election campaign. |
| 1:09.0 | Remember that Labor was supposed to end the chaos, the endless |
| 1:12.4 | comings and goings from Downing Street, and yet here we are all over again. Why has Keir Stama |
| 1:18.9 | done it and will he finally be able to use his new number 10 to get a grip on his government? |
| 1:25.3 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:29.9 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:31.6 | It's John. It's Lewis. |
| 1:33.0 | And later in the podcast, we're going to be talking a lot about the Middle East, |
| 1:37.1 | one year on from the October 7th attacks by Hamas terrorists in Israel, |
| 1:42.7 | what it means now for the region, what happens next and whether |
| 1:47.9 | there are any hopes of peace. And we'll be talking to the historian and writer Simon Seabag Montefuri. |
| 1:53.6 | But first, we are going to talk about the convulsions in Downing Street on Sunday into Monday. |
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