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Enda Brady: UK Correspondent on the calls for Sir Keir Starmer to resign · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Now I am denarwed whether to do this, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: about to play you twenty eight seconds of secure Starmer,
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  Speaker 1: and that for a lot of people would probably be
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  Speaker 1: a turn off. However, it's important I do this because
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  Speaker 1: he is literally fighting for his job this morning.
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  Speaker 2: I know I have my doubters, and I know I
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  Speaker 2: need to prove them wrong, and I will. Like every
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  Speaker 2: prime minister, I've learned a lot in the first two
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  Speaker 2: years in the job in terms of the policy challenges
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  Speaker 2: that our country faces. Incremental change won't cut it on growth, defense, Europe, energy.
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  Speaker 2: We need a bigger response that we anticipated in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: Fifty five labor INPs now the number according to Sky
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  Speaker 1: that one am gone joining us in the Brady are
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  Speaker 1: UK corresponding in a good morning, good evening.
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  Speaker 3: To you, Good morning to you, Ryan. Great to speak again,
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  Speaker 3: my friend.
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  Speaker 1: How long do you think he's got I think until September.
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  Speaker 3: He survived today, So there's no clear challenger. Nobody has
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  Speaker 3: stuck their head of the parapet and said I'm a
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  Speaker 3: cabinet minister, I will lead this party and this country
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  Speaker 3: better back me and sack Starmer. None of them have
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  Speaker 3: had the guts to do that today. I've literally come
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  Speaker 3: from London from my studio. I had one of Starmer's
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  Speaker 3: friends in the studio with me, a Labor loyalist, and
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  Speaker 3: she said to me on air, that's the kind of
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  Speaker 3: speech I wish he'd given two years ago. So there
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  Speaker 3: is still some support. The party split, and I think
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  Speaker 3: it's split three ways in terms of who comes next
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  Speaker 3: or who they want to come next. But he has
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  Speaker 3: survived day one.
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  Speaker 1: I was watching Lorrain Beavis in Pay for Blackpool Northern Fleetwood.
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  Speaker 1: How sid for our party to rediscover its connection with
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  Speaker 1: working class communities like mine, we need a democratic contest
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  Speaker 1: involving the most talented leaders. A Kebnet appointment without consulting
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  Speaker 1: the party and the movement would risk repeating the same
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  Speaker 1: mistakes already made. Do you agree.
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  Speaker 3: Look, Labor do things very differently. Conservatives love a bit
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  Speaker 3: of regicide. They get rid of a leader when they
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  Speaker 3: were in charge, that they did it every few weeks.
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  Speaker 3: I mean they'd three prime ministers in a year if
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  Speaker 3: you can believe Liz Trusts famously being outlasted by a Lettus.
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  Speaker 3: I think what Labour need to do now is to
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  Speaker 3: coalesce around one serious challenger. The best person for the job,
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  Speaker 3: I believe isn't even a member of Parliament. This is
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  Speaker 3: Andy Burnham, the mayor of Manchester, a very good leader,
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  Speaker 3: a good communicator, previously a Cabinet minister and someone from
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  Speaker 3: the North of England who will get those working class
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  Speaker 3: communities back on side. But for him to get in
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  Speaker 3: he needs to become an MP and then challenge Starmer.
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  Speaker 3: There are other names in the frame. The Health Secretary
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  Speaker 3: web Streeting apparently fancies his chances. So does Angela Rayner,
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  Speaker 3: the former Deputy Prime Minister, but there's an issue over
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  Speaker 3: her tax affairs, so she's waiting to be cleared on that.
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  Speaker 3: So Starmer has time, but he needs to start delivering.
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  Speaker 3: Working people in the UK are struggling, they're angry, and
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  Speaker 3: then you've got Majel Farage telling them that come vote
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  Speaker 3: for me, I'll sort all your problems. That's the conundrum.
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  Speaker 1: And Brady, a UK correspondent, Good to have you on
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  Speaker 1: the show this morning.
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