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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer under pressure · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: British Prime Minister Cure Starmer is facing growing pressure to
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  Speaker 1: step down or find a possible challenge from Labor Party
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  Speaker 1: rival Andy Burnham. Starmer has vowed to stay in office,
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  Speaker 1: but more and more Labor Party MPs are calling for
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  Speaker 1: him to resign. Business Secretary Peter Kyle did not deny
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  Speaker 1: multiple reports that Starmer's departure could come as early as Monday.
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  Speaker 1: He said Starmer was making time to reflect on the
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  Speaker 1: political realities and challenges he finds himself in. Burnham is
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  Speaker 1: set to be sworn in on Monday as a lawmaker
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  Speaker 1: in the House of Commons after winning a key by
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  Speaker 1: election earlier. I spoke to d w's Burg at Moss
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  Speaker 1: in London. Given that Starmer vow to fight for his
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  Speaker 1: job just days ago, I asked her what has changed
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  Speaker 1: now to raise the temperature about his possible resignation.
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  Speaker 2: What has increased, Michael is the pressure on the Prime Minister.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just MPs, it's his own cabinet colleigue. So
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  Speaker 2: there are reports that the Home Secretary, for example, has
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  Speaker 2: urged them to resigne. The reports that other so called
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  Speaker 2: big beast really important cabinet colleagues have urged them to resign.
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  Speaker 2: And if this is the case, then it's really a
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  Speaker 2: question for Kirstarmer. Does he want the public humiliation of
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  Speaker 2: possibly his important cabinet colleagues resigning, of him not essentially
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  Speaker 2: having a government anymore, or does he choose to set
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  Speaker 2: a path forward for an orderly transition and spare himself
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  Speaker 2: the public humiliation. So we don't know what he's going
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  Speaker 2: to decide, but there is speculation that we will know
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  Speaker 2: as soon as tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you've noticed now even the White House is
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  Speaker 1: weighing in from across the Pond, or more specifically, Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 1: the US President, posted this on truth Social Keir Starmer
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  Speaker 1: will resign as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He
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  Speaker 1: failed badly on two important subjects, immigration and energy. Your thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: burget Well.
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  Speaker 2: British media have definitely picked up on this comment by
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  Speaker 2: President Trump as for US, and we don't have a
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  Speaker 2: reaction from Number ten from Downing Street, Akai, the UK
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  Speaker 2: government or any of Starmer's spokespeople. But it's definitely something
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  Speaker 2: that's very unusual that a head of state so directly
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  Speaker 2: intervenes into the affairs of another democratic country, and it's
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  Speaker 2: a democratically elected leader. But then again, what is Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump if not somebody who really breaks with diplomatic norms.
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  Speaker 1: Back to the pressure on Starmer, but parts of this
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  Speaker 1: out for us. How much of this pressure is really
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  Speaker 1: about Starmer's performance and how much is it about Andy Burnham,
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  Speaker 1: the former mayor of a Greater Manchester as a plausible successor.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Andy Burnham comes at a time where he has
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  Speaker 2: won an important by election and has shown that he
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  Speaker 2: can beat Reform. So this is something that really will
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  Speaker 2: be very very important for members of Parliament because they
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  Speaker 2: fear that if they don't improve their performance, if they
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  Speaker 2: don't improve in the opinion polls, that the next election
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  Speaker 2: will could be won by the populist right wing Reform
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  Speaker 2: Party with Nigro Faraj as their leader. So Andy Burnham
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  Speaker 2: has beat Reform in this important election. Now when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to Kistarma, on the one hand, if you look
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  Speaker 2: at it from abroad, he has I think caught out
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  Speaker 2: quite a good figure. He has been able to reset
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  Speaker 2: relations with the European Union, He's been cooperating with other
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  Speaker 2: world leaders very well, for example on Ukraine. But internally,
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  Speaker 2: domestically this is where his problems are. His opinion polls
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  Speaker 2: are at a historic low. So he's the prime minister
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  Speaker 2: that British people really really don't like, and I think
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  Speaker 2: it's because they don't really know what he stands for.
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  Speaker 2: He promised stability, he promised growth, and he promised competence.
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  Speaker 2: But what people have seen is a lot of ute
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  Speaker 2: hands where he said one thing and then decided on
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  Speaker 2: another thing. So that really has he made the impression
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  Speaker 2: that he doesn't really know himself what he wants for
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  Speaker 2: the country, and that's made people disillusioned and very unhappy
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  Speaker 2: with him.
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  Speaker 1: Burgett you and I and I suspect a great number
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  Speaker 1: of people watching us right now can remember a time
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  Speaker 1: not long ago when pms could reasonably expect to lead
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  Speaker 1: their parties for years. But it's been topsy turvy the
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  Speaker 1: past decade or so. Is this an issue of personalities
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  Speaker 1: or has there been some structural change in British politics.
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  Speaker 2: I would say it's a combination of both. Michael, So,
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  Speaker 2: on one hand, you look at the UK and it's
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  Speaker 2: the G seven member it's a rich and powerful country
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  Speaker 2: in the grand scheme of things, But internally we don't
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  Speaker 2: just have a prime minister whose personal opinion polls are
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  Speaker 2: as I just explained, very very low. But we also
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  Speaker 2: have structural problems and we have really seen them exacerbating
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  Speaker 2: since Brexit. They vote for Brexit ten years ago. We've
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  Speaker 2: seen a country that has really been shocked and rattled
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  Speaker 2: by the financial crisis more than other Western countries because
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  Speaker 2: of its exposure to the financial markets, very big industry.
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  Speaker 2: Also here in the UK, we've seen inequality grow. We've
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  Speaker 2: seen a really deep cost of living crisis that is
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  Speaker 2: on one hand the result of the financial crisis, and
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  Speaker 2: on the other hand it's also got to do with
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  Speaker 2: the energy shock, with the Iran war, so factors that
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  Speaker 2: are not Kiirs Darmas or the Labor Government's fault, but
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  Speaker 2: that sort of exacerbates all the problems that the UK
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  Speaker 2: has anyway, and for many people it's this feeling that
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  Speaker 2: the status quo is just not good enough and that
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  Speaker 2: they want something else. The Labor Party, many in the
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  Speaker 2: Labor Party will be hoping that they can offer something
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  Speaker 2: else in the persona of Andy Burnham. But Kirs Darma
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  Speaker 2: hasn't made up his mind just yet from all we know,
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  Speaker 2: and hopefully we'll find out more tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: We will be watching very closely and I know you
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  Speaker 1: will be as well. That's brigand Mass. As always, many
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  Speaker 1: thanks to you