Zombie Labour: Starmer staggers on
Politics Weekly UK
The Guardian
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🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:02.0 | I've accepted responsibility and apologised for the mistakes that I made. |
| 0:20.0 | Labour MPs looked over the precipice, |
| 0:23.0 | and they didn't like what they saw. |
| 0:24.9 | So let's give Keir, just give Keir that chance. |
| 0:29.0 | Let him set out how he's going to lead us forward. |
| 0:31.8 | We want the ones stuffing government with hypocrites and paedophile apologists. |
| 0:36.3 | We need to see far less of these misogynistic briefings. |
| 0:40.1 | We need far more women around every table where decisions are being made. |
| 0:44.6 | It's been the worst week of Kirstarmer's time as Prime Minister. |
| 0:48.3 | You may have just about survived, but how much longer can he and this fragile government carry on? |
| 0:54.1 | I'm John Harris, and you're listening to Politics Weekly for The Guardian. |
| 0:58.2 | Joining me today are my Politics Weekly co-host, political editor Pippa Kriara, |
| 1:02.5 | and the Guardian's policy editor, Kieran Stacey. |
| 1:04.5 | Hello. |
| 1:04.8 | Hi, John. |
| 1:06.1 | Right, what a week. |
| 1:06.9 | We seem to say that every week at the moment. |
| 1:08.5 | It was famously said of the Tory Prime Minister |
| 1:11.4 | John Major that he was in office but not in power and the same, let's be honest, seems to apply it now |
| 1:17.2 | to Kirs Stama. He's still the Prime Minister for now, but in the aftermath of this week's huge |
| 1:22.2 | labour wobble, he's only hit more trouble. Meanwhile, we're hearing from Starma allies that |
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