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Electoral Dysfunction

Will a ministerial resignation dent Starmer's post Trump high?

Electoral Dysfunction

Sky News

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6659 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has returned from the US after what has been seen by Number 10 as a highly successful meeting with Donald Trump.  This week, Beth Rigby, Harriet Harman and Ruth Davidson look at the preparation that went into this visit. Beth reveals how she caught the US president's attention. Plus, what is it like in the Oval Office?  And how did Mr Trump react when he got that invitation from the King. 
 
They also discuss the resignation of development minister Annelise Dodds after the aid budget was cut to boost defence spending and ask  whether this will dent Mr Starmer's post-Trump confidence.  
  
Email us at [email protected], post on X to @BethRigby, or send a WhatsApp voice note on 07934 200 444.      
 
And remember, you can also watch us on YouTube! 

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0:00.0

Sky News' unreliable witness is back.

0:03.2

There is a new twist in the Eleanor Williams story, the girl who lied, jailed for fabricating evidence of a grooming gang.

0:11.7

In court, it was suggested her diaries were fake, but we've got extracts and if they were, somehow within the fantasy,

0:19.2

Eleanor identified a real monster.

0:22.3

Barrel got branded to be a lion town.

0:24.5

It's not grooming what's happening here.

0:26.6

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0:42.5

Hello and welcome to Electoral Dysfunction with me, Beth Rigby.

0:43.3

Hereith Davidson.

0:48.5

And if you're listening but you want to see us as well as hear us, you can.

0:51.5

You just search Electoral Dysfunction on YouTube.

0:57.0

And viewers can see that Beth, though we saw you in the States yesterday,

1:03.4

you are here by some miracle and looking as fresh as a daisy. How did that time travelling happen?

1:13.2

Well, Harriet, I did my make-up in Terminal 3 Luz at Heathrow, and I'm glad that you think I did it quite well. The jet lag is real.

1:19.4

I've been back and forth to Trump Wild. We were literally there for 24 hours. And I went with a journalist in the lobby. And when we go, we have this WhatsApp group. Someone called it

1:25.2

Keir gets trumped. Top trumps, I would say. He went into the lion's den

1:31.6

and he came out, not even mauled. Kier Stama, who'd have thought of it? How many puns are we

1:36.4

going to have, ladies? Millions. Pond a minute. Well, do you know, there are some people that are

1:40.5

in an electoral dysfunction world because we've had one of these things that is almost my favorite thing in this podcast, which is when one of our listeners writes in

1:48.8

or sends us a voice note to ask us something that we're actually able to answer with firsthand

1:54.1

knowledge. And we've had this brilliant question in by email from Annette. And she wrote in

2:00.5

to ask you, Beth, if you could ask Donald Trump one

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