Latest / INSIGHT TODAY / Keir Starmer resigns as British prime minister

Transcript

Keir Starmer resigns as British prime minister · INSIGHT TODAY

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: We begin this morning with a Fox News alert, and
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: it's a big one. Just moments ago, UK Prime Minister
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: Keir Starmer resigning after mounting pressure from the Labor Party and.
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: The pubblic.
• 0:15
  Speaker 3: My party is up now is whether I am best
• 0:19
  Speaker 3: place to lead us into the next general election. I
• 0:25
  Speaker 3: have heard the answer of my parliamentary party to that question,
• 0:32
  Speaker 3: and I accept that answer with good grace. Every decision
• 0:38
  Speaker 3: I've taken has been about putting the country I love first.
• 0:43
  Speaker 3: That is why I will resign as leader of the
• 0:46
  Speaker 3: Labor Party.
• 0:48
  Speaker 4: You're watching Fox and Frin's First on this Monday morning.
• 0:51
  Speaker 4: I'm Ashley Stromyer filling in for Carly Showcus.
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: And I'm Todd Pirol. Let's bring in Fox News Senior
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: correspondent Benjamin Hall to react, give us the latest in information.
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: And Benjamin, look, We've been talking about Starmer resigning for
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: months now. Then it seemed to go away, at least
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: here in the.
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: States for a couple of months.
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: What happened in the last week that led Keir Starmer
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: to officially resign.
• 1:17
  Speaker 5: Yes, I mean, look, everyone knew it was coming at
• 1:19
  Speaker 5: some point.
• 1:20
  Speaker 2: The question was when and what happened in.
• 1:22
  Speaker 5: The last week specifically, is this other Labor candidate called
• 1:26
  Speaker 5: Andy Burnham, who is the mayor of Manchester finally won
• 1:29
  Speaker 5: a seat in Parliament. He was effectively someone stood down
• 1:32
  Speaker 5: to allow him to do that, and he is widely
• 1:34
  Speaker 5: considered to be the next contender.
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: But you're right.
• 1:36
  Speaker 5: You look back over the last few months and you
• 1:38
  Speaker 5: have had countless u turns by Kissed Armer. You've had
• 1:43
  Speaker 5: local elections in which the Labor Party were decimated by
• 1:46
  Speaker 5: a lot of other parties, by Reform in particular, And
• 1:49
  Speaker 5: of course you had Peter Mandelson, who was the man
• 1:53
  Speaker 5: that kiss Starmer picked to become Ambassador to America, and
• 1:56
  Speaker 5: it turned out he had close relationships with Jeffrey Epstein
• 1:59
  Speaker 5: hadn't closed them and Kis Starmer knew that when he
• 2:02
  Speaker 5: put him in place.
• 2:03
  Speaker 2: So all of these different things had been building.
• 2:05
  Speaker 5: But it was the appointment of Andy Burnham, who is
• 2:07
  Speaker 5: widely expected to be.
• 2:08
  Speaker 2: The next Labor leader and then the next.
• 2:09
  Speaker 5: Prime Minister in the last week that really made the move.
• 2:13
  Speaker 5: But look, the next Prime Minister will be the seventh
• 2:16
  Speaker 5: prime minister in ten years here in the UK. It
• 2:19
  Speaker 5: has been a decade of constant overhaul and the party,
• 2:23
  Speaker 5: the country just can't seem to decide which way it
• 2:26
  Speaker 5: wants to go.
• 2:27
  Speaker 4: WEBN. That was my question. I mean this kick starts,
• 2:30
  Speaker 4: you know, this process for the country to see, as
• 2:32
  Speaker 4: you said, the seventh leader in a decade. That's a
• 2:34
  Speaker 4: lot of turnover. That is an ever revolving door. What
• 2:37
  Speaker 4: does that mean historically for the country and really what
• 2:40
  Speaker 4: does it mean you know for the time being right now?
• 2:45
  Speaker 5: Well, yes, if you went back twenty years, you know,
• 2:47
  Speaker 5: much like the US, every prime minister was in place
• 2:50
  Speaker 5: for five years and there was another election, and it
• 2:51
  Speaker 5: was like that for decades and decades. Well, that has
• 2:53
  Speaker 5: changed dramatically. What we expect to see now, and Kis
• 2:56
  Speaker 5: Starmer said it in his resignation speech, is that a
• 2:59
  Speaker 5: new contest will begin on July the ninth, and he
• 3:02
  Speaker 5: will stay Prime Minister till then. Now the Labor Party
• 3:05
  Speaker 5: will pick the next prime minister because they're the party
• 3:08
  Speaker 5: that was voted in and there are a couple of
• 3:10
  Speaker 5: other candidates who might run for it as well as
• 3:13
  Speaker 5: west Streeting is the main one at the moment, but
• 3:18
  Speaker 5: Andy Burnham has been talking to west Streeting and it
• 3:20
  Speaker 5: appears that they might be doing a deal with Andy
• 3:22
  Speaker 5: Burnham's telling this other man, if you stand down, I'll
• 3:25
  Speaker 5: give you one of the plum roles in my government.
• 3:29
  Speaker 5: Now that means that it would be considered an appointment
• 3:32
  Speaker 5: that the party won't have voted for the next prime minister,
• 3:35
  Speaker 5: and that upsets many people. So either you have these
• 3:38
  Speaker 5: candidates running against each other, which franctually hurts the party
• 3:41
  Speaker 5: because they all criticize each other for two months, or
• 3:43
  Speaker 5: else you pick one person in this case, and many
• 3:46
  Speaker 5: people criticize that as being a coronation. So either way
• 3:50
  Speaker 5: there's going to be criticism of just moving on to
• 3:52
  Speaker 5: a new leader without the country itself having elected him.
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: Then a face familiar to the Fox audience, of course,
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: is Nigel Farage. Was this move done with an eye
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: toward eventually staving off a Nigel Farage prime ministership?
• 4:10
  Speaker 5: One hundred percent In the local elections that took place
• 4:14
  Speaker 5: in May, the Labor Party lost across the country to
• 4:17
  Speaker 5: Niger Farag's Reform Party.
• 4:19
  Speaker 2: They are right.
• 4:20
  Speaker 5: Now the biggest party in the UK. They came from
• 4:23
  Speaker 5: nowhere the last couple of years.
• 4:25
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 4:25
  Speaker 5: In the by election that took place just a week
• 4:28
  Speaker 5: or so ago, which Andy Burnham won, he did surprisingly
• 4:31
  Speaker 5: well against Reform and so many people in the Labor
• 4:34
  Speaker 5: Party are saying, well, wow, this might be the one
• 4:37
  Speaker 5: person who can push back against Niger Faraj and his party.
• 4:40
  Speaker 2: Now, that is why they have pushed.
• 4:41
  Speaker 5: Against Kirstarmer, That's why they forced them to resign, because
• 4:45
  Speaker 5: they think that this guy Andy Burnham might be the
• 4:47
  Speaker 5: one person who can fight back against Niger farrage. But still,
• 4:50
  Speaker 5: you look at the figures right now and the Reform
• 4:53
  Speaker 5: Party Niger Farraj has a if there was a general election,
• 4:56
  Speaker 5: has a clear path to victory.
• 4:58
  Speaker 2: So there are two more years till there.
• 5:00
  Speaker 5: Has to three more years almost till there has to
• 5:03
  Speaker 5: be a general election in the UK, So whoever comes
• 5:05
  Speaker 5: in next could just keep waiting, keep waiting, keep waiting,
• 5:08
  Speaker 5: stay in.
• 5:08
  Speaker 2: Power that long.
• 5:09
  Speaker 5: But that comes down to who wins this by election,
• 5:12
  Speaker 5: how they choose the next leader. Will they force that
• 5:14
  Speaker 5: general election to be sooner. The sooner it is, the
• 5:17
  Speaker 5: more chance Niger Ferag has of becoming the next or
• 5:20
  Speaker 5: the second future prime minister.
• 5:22
  Speaker 4: Ben do you foresee this changing the framework in how
• 5:25
  Speaker 4: the rest of the world operates with this or do
• 5:27
  Speaker 4: you think this is just going to stick with the country.
• 5:32
  Speaker 2: Well, look at you look.
• 5:32
  Speaker 5: Around other countries in Europe and they've seen quite a
• 5:34
  Speaker 5: lot of flipping as well of prime ministers as well.
• 5:37
  Speaker 5: There seems to be a change right now, particularly right
• 5:39
  Speaker 5: through in middle level countries.
• 5:40
  Speaker 2: You don't quite know where they stand.
• 5:42
  Speaker 5: I will say, when we look at the world, you
• 5:44
  Speaker 5: have to see how Kis Starmer his relationship with President Trump,
• 5:47
  Speaker 5: because frankly, the most important thing that the UK does
• 5:49
  Speaker 5: at the moment is sure up its special relationship with America. Now,
• 5:53
  Speaker 5: Kis Starmer began with a really quite strong relationship with
• 5:56
  Speaker 5: President Trump. They are on different sides of the political
• 5:59
  Speaker 5: spec Jim know Kis Starmer the Labor Party left, President
• 6:02
  Speaker 5: Trump is a Republican, so they are on either side.
• 6:05
  Speaker 5: But after the beginning and Kis Starmer came to the
• 6:08
  Speaker 5: White House the Oval Office, he gave President Trump a
• 6:10
  Speaker 5: formal invitation.
• 6:11
  Speaker 2: To the second State visit.
• 6:12
  Speaker 5: It was the first time a president had been given
• 6:14
  Speaker 5: that the relationship was close. They seemed really close friends.
• 6:17
  Speaker 2: And then that.
• 6:18
  Speaker 5: Started to fall apart, and you know, it really led
• 6:22
  Speaker 5: up to the Iran conflict where Kis Starmer refused to help,
• 6:25
  Speaker 5: would not allow any air bases to be used at
• 6:28
  Speaker 5: first was not giving UK military support to the US,
• 6:31
  Speaker 5: and that is when it really broke and President Trump
• 6:34
  Speaker 5: really started talking quite strongly against Kis Starmer. And what
• 6:37
  Speaker 5: was remarkable was it just yesterday President Trump put out
• 6:40
  Speaker 5: on truth Social Kis Starmer is going to resign before
• 6:44
  Speaker 5: anyone else knew. So whether or not Kis Starmer, the
• 6:46
  Speaker 5: Prime Minister had let President Trump know in advance, and
• 6:49
  Speaker 5: President Trump leaked that. It was a remarkable thing for
• 6:51
  Speaker 5: President Trump to be the first world leader to say
• 6:54
  Speaker 5: Kis Starmer is about to resign. But the big question
• 6:57
  Speaker 5: is what will the next Prime Minister, what relationship will
• 6:59
  Speaker 5: he have with President And if it's Andy Burnham, well
• 7:02
  Speaker 5: he is going to move further to the left over here.
• 7:04
  Speaker 5: The Labor Party like him because he's going to be
• 7:06
  Speaker 5: far more liberal and in fact, the bond markets, by
• 7:08
  Speaker 5: the way, jumping when he was voted as the by election.
• 7:11
  Speaker 2: So it's tough to see how he's.
• 7:12
  Speaker 5: Going to have a closer relationship with President Trump than
• 7:14
  Speaker 5: Kirs Starmer did. And that isn't going to be great
• 7:17
  Speaker 5: for the UK because it's our relationship with the US.
• 7:19
  Speaker 5: It gives us, gives the UK so much strength, so
• 7:22
  Speaker 5: much support, and.
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: We're going to get more into the US UK relationship
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: now that Keir Starmer has resigned, with Steve Yates coming
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: up in a few minutes, Benjamin Hall, great insight, great reporting.
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: We appreciate your time.
• 7:34
  Speaker 2: This morning, on this historic morning.
• 7:37
  Speaker 4: Be sure to like and subscribe for all the Fox
• 7:39
  Speaker 4: News latest on YouTube and catch full shows streaming now
• 7:43
  Speaker 4: on Fox One.