Keir Starmer, our new Prime Minister. What now? | The News Agents
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- Labour are the new government. Sir Keir Starmer is our new Prime Minister.
He's in Downing Street, and he's about to appoint his cabinet...what next?
Plus, we recap on the likes of Liz Truss losing her seat. Yes, LIZ TRUSS.
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This is a man with grace and generosity. He may not be charismatic but i reckon the UK has picked for the first time in years a man who’s right for the job. Do you want a pop star or do you want a thinker and a doer?
Exactly.
Well said, couldn’t agree with you more. 🌹
Fair comment
We will wait and see. I hold high hopes though that he will be honest
I want someone not synonymous with Dishonesty. And Starmer is dishonest
I actually like our peaceful transfer of power. I think Rishi did a great leaving speech and Kier did a great incoming speech. Both very respectful of each other
Yes indeed. Liz Truss however: mmm
What? OMFG!
No Jan 6th here things can only get better. Sour grapes to the losers.
Their words for each other gave me some hope actually. Yes these last few years have been disastrous for the UK, and yes a peaceful handover of power shouldn’t be remarkable, but it gave me heart. Maybe we can be honourable and gentlemanly/gentlewomanly again.
Yeh I thought rishi spoke well for maybe the first time ever in his speech. All very respectful, efficient and swift changeover.
If Truss had made an outgoing speech, she would not have been able to apologise and would have likely blamed others for her downfall. She would have been booed out of the building and that would have been the election defining Portillo moment. Little wonder she didn’t.
Just the usual charmless bad grace from Truss. She so deserved to lose.
Such a graceless individual ! She won’t be missed !
I’m 😊
I think that what Kier Starmer said about the extra effort it would take being the first British Asian Prime Minister should not be overlooked, especially considering what happened last week with the Reform volunteer saying what he said and Sunak having to explain that to his children. Truss, Johnson, May, Cameron, Brown, Blair, Major, Thatcher, none of those would have had put up with this. I don’t agree with the Tories, but I am glad Starmer said what he did, it has to be said, and it’s out of touch for Emily to think this was him scraping the bottom of the barrel for a compliment.
Why does Race ever have to come into the equasion ...ever?
@@noramartin96 Because if it doesn't, that might be the dreaded woke!!!! (I like woke.)
@@noramartin96 You labelling race as irrelevant is case in point. Race should be talked about and not be dismissed. Turning a blind eye because it’s not relevant to you is part of the problem. Maybe if you had ever had to deal with it, you might have a different view.
The news she lost got to Liz's ears, but it hadn't quite reached her brain.
😂👍
Her what?!?!
I am from Witney (Dave Cameron area). We went Lib Dem because locals are now more attuned to the necessity of voting tactically in the FPTP system.
Seriously what is the point of voting Lib Dem? What policy do they have that isn’t total nonsense
@@stevenesbitt3528It was a tactical vote to stop the Tories winning.
You all look exhausted - thank you and well done
Just my humble opinion. The Tories got a drubbing because they took their thieving scheming too far, and Joe Blogs cottoned on to them at last.
Their usual voter base was offered another option. This constituency Reform took away enough votes for Labour to win. The Tories have rarely faced much competition in their end of the pool; I suspect Reform cost them enough votes for usually second-place parties to slip through.
@@DharricRolyat so you're saying Reform caused a Tory loss of 244 seats, and basically it had nothing to do with Labour?
Unfortunately some voters thought the tories weren’t bad enough and voted for Reform instead. This left multiple open goals for Labour.
The number of Tories who avoided the humiliation by standing down is very telling. Michael Gove for example.
I would not be surprised if some of those stand at the next election. A large part of that majority was due to Reform, who will have less impact in 5 years time. So I'd expect the next election to be more traditional in it's result. Labour to win, Libs to get a high percentage but fewer seats, majority to under 100.
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From the view of the establishment media which is blatantly biased - no thanks
Left Leaning as all the MSM are
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Great coverage, you must all be shattered! Re Reform, the vote share is apparently not much more than when UKIP were at their peak, so a question for you, has Farage's politics actually grown in appeal in the last 14 years? Hopefully not.
And Labour’s vote share has fallen. And so try that argument with Reform and expect the rancid Farage and Tice to bury you alive with some very uncomfortable facts.
Reform are nothing without farraige, but he can’t hide from scrutiny now. He’s too thin skinned and the pressure will be enormous. Get rid of farraige and reform are dead
I think it has changed, in the same way right wing populism has in general. There's more overtness, more anger, more confabulation and conspiracy theory bedded in there. It's absolutely right that the way you deal with them, in the end is to try to address the genuine concerns people have, and ignore the crazies.
Because all parties are coalitions, you can starve a party like Reform by reducing the genuine grievances, and forcing them to double down on socially unpalatable behaviours, which will marginalise them, reducing the number of people willing to be associated with them.
This is also why the rightward shift for the Conservatives was suicidal. It just re-enforced that set of attitudes in their own voters, who consequently saw the Tories as insufficiently pure, insufficiently willing to take action. They fed the beast that longed to devour them. You have to starve the beast by taking the best actions you can, having a sane and serious public conversation about issues like immigration, and refusing to feed into the psychosis that thrives on conflict and anger.
The Tories are at genuine risk of implosion if they try to be Reform while Reform still exists. And they will drive away moderate Conservatives in the process of failing to do it.
Difference is Reform now has 5 MPs and will gain a lot more influence in parliament and in the media. So yes they’ve grown in appeal. Social media has helped them too as no longer rely on MSM. You seem a bit clueless
Reform have been hilarious IMO. They started saying they were going to be the Opposition and on social media they were going even further, paying trolls everywhere to say they were going to win. And now…? A tiny inconsequential number of MPs. And more importantly a load of sour grapes. They’ve shown who they are, which is a party of bitter whingers, whiners and moaners.
I'd put money on the fact that Rishi came off more sincere in his leaving speech because he's relieved it's over. I don't like him, but I have a feeling he found himself in a position he'd longed for and it came with far more toxic garbage than he anticipated
I'm looking forward to less noise, after all the Tories we've been subjected to over the past 14 years I can't wait for the man in a grey suit! PS What on earth is going on with Lewis' hair? Should we crowdfund for a hairbrush?
I have a horrible feeling he styles it like that on purpose. Hope I'm wrong and it's just that he has to pass a rosebush on his way out in the mornings.
That hairstyle will start a meme.
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Now 72 LDs 🎉 and 5 Reform 😢.
Would be better with ) MP's from the limited company. Limited is a key word to describe them.
Great work over the last few weeks guys. Thank you for your fascinating coverage.
I really liked the comment about Sunak's background. It think it was about making a parallel about class and race and knowing you have to go above and beyond to succeed. I knew exactly where he was coming from and that was refreshing to hear something like it from a UK PM.
Sunak's wife standing behind him with an umbrella... classic.
she was definitely trolling him "I'm the brains of the operation'
She has all the money and the power
Starmer is very impressive. This is a widespread view.
Starmer was clearly channeling Atlee with that tone. I think Starmer should establish an independent regullator for standards in public life. A modern and relevant equivalent of Bank of England independence.
Absolutely. It's the combination of the uncharismatic specs and the rhetorical channelling of the Methodist ministers of my childhood, preaching about service and hard work. Not a tone the younger me enjoys, but I do respect it. Atlee provides an encouraging precedent for understated, unglamorous success.
What do you mean Emily saying “ not polished”? Sounds like a put down to me. I for one have had enough ‘polished ‘ presentations to last a lifetime. Substance, sincerity and integrity is on the top of my list of most desired traits in a Prime Minister.
I think she meant it as a compliment. Like ‘not over-rehearsed’ (as Rishi was so often)
It's bit like Beth Rigby commenting on Angela Rayner's phone bag today. Suggesting it was emblematic of this more working class government. A bit patronising, I thought.
Not sure it was a compliment. Thought it was an odd comment. Particularly given Rishi's stilted start as PM and his bedraggled election announcement - never mind shambolic Truss and Johnson before him.
Truss moment is better than the Portillo moment for me. The Portillo moment was famous for its particular characteristics (unexpected, potential leader, etc.) but the Truss characteristics were even better. The gracelessness, the pricking of pomposity and ego, the fact she’s a former prime minister. I don’t know if we’ll get another Truss moment in my lifetime but it’s the new high bar for political drama I think.
Clean, quiet, competent government
Can i ask why the media are not talking about the Greens?🤔
Exactly, they have as many MPs as reform, their most ever, and yet don't even get mentioned in the run down of the results.
Absolutely. They had a phenomenal campaign. Onward and toward I hope.
Crazy cult.
Truss is not the first former PM to lose their seat.
Arthur Balfour PM 1902-05 lost his seat on a 22% swing in Manchester East in the 1906 Liberal landslide.
He had stood down four months earlier.
Thank goodness! the other ones gone!! 👀.. 😇
One thing strikes me. It is often lazily assumed that the Conservatives are the natural party of government in the UK. But if you add up the votes cast, neglecting Northern Ireland, the Independents and the parties that won no seats, then on Thursday ~16.1 million people voted for left--of-centre parties and only ~10.8 million for the Tories plus Reform.
Why did Jon miss Sinn Fein when listing the seat count results? Very weird they never get mentioned, they won 7 seats ffs
They’ll get to number ten before farraige ever does !
Honestly it was a big complicated election, probably the most complicated one we've ever had. There was news all over it. The Conservatives, Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the SNP, the Greens, Reform, and yes absolutely SF and the DUP and PC and so on. And in that context sometimes you just don't perfectly capture everything first time.
N. Ireland is so out there that generally it's safest to avoid talking about it, also they don't sit so don't have any impact on Parliament.
SF don't take their seats. True, they did well and that may be the point you're making, but their MPs won't be in parliament doing anything.
They choose not to attend the HoC
Can someone find the people who organise the moving out of a PM the day after an election -- particularly when it is a surprise? That must be fascinating. Packing on a hunch? Never unpacking or bringing personal things to No. 10/11?
The flat at 10 Downing Street is very small, there isn't much packing or unpacking needed
@@johnking5174 I'd still like no know that organizing of the process, and I think others would too.
@@dianapatterson1559 James O'Brien has a call in radio show on LBC every weekday, mostly politics & current affairs, but the last hour on Thursday is special, that's Mystery hour. People call in with questions & others call in with answers. This is the kind of question where you may get the owner of the moving company answering.
I'd say give him a ring.
Article on this on the Guardian.
Lol did u not catch the taxi leaving? As we were all watching Keir enter downing Street u seen a taxi flitting 😅 no joke
It's a mistake to conflate SNP WM seats with support for independence.
Allowing for margin of error, the electorate in Scotland is still 50/50 on this issue.
Let's split the difference on that one. It is and it isn't. An issue can have variable salience. For instance people had a variety of views on the EU before 2016, but it wasn't a high priority issue, it ranked about seventh on average in polling.
When the referendum happened it suddenly became intensely important to a lot of people. But the importance is not strictly the same as the preference, or voting intention.
Scottish independence is off the radar, not just in terms of plausibility, but in terms of priorities. That's the view we do have to take.
You seem to think something has happened to make independence less necessary and/or desirable.
Trust me, it hasn't.
@@grahamniven … for 50% of Scots.
Which is exactly my point.
Glad we agree 😁
I wonder if Sunak's resignation speech and Starmer's first speech as PM were choreographed more deliberately to ensure other countries with elections this year see an example of peaceful transition of power
Isn't that typical "the English"? Don't you think other countries had already enough of examples of British Government?
@@marleneMS I don't agree for two reasons. In recent years we've had a succession of graceless leaders that have done a great deal of damage to international relations, therefore it was in our interest to do such a reset. Secondly, the UK now has a centre-left government when other countries are turning more towards right-wing populism which we have seen in the US and Brazil and they have left messy transitions of power when they lose.
It's an example being set not through any sense of UK superiority as you suggest but through a sense of empathy; it says that both sides of our political divide can accept change after a tumultuous time.
Hope you appreciate the points, if you don't, that's okay; in true democratic fashion, we're allowed to disagree 😁
Is it just me who gets annoyed with "It's John", "It's Emily", "It's Lewis", rather than "I'm John", "I'm Emily", "I'm Lewis" or have I just morphed into Alan Partridge in my 30's?
Sad that the One Nation Tory party of the 1950s-1980s is gone for ever.
I think that the King will be relieved because he now has a grown-up for a Prime Minister, and even better, he has a grown-up with integrity.
Well integrity in politics only lasted a few days as he appoints Jacqui Smith to the Lords.
Following the formation of the Brown ministry in 2007, Smith became the first female Home Secretary. She resigned as Home Secretary in June 2009 following her involvement in the parliamentary expenses scandal in which she had falsely claimed that a room in her sister's house was her main home; she was also the subject of controversy after it emerged that her husband had used taxpayer money to purchase pornographic videos. Smith, one of the highest profile figures involved in the scandal, then lost her seat as MP for Redditch in the 2010 general election.
The Scottish MPs in Westminster were authentic and incredibly passionate about their electorates but the zeitgeist for independence has passed . There are other survival issues their electorate are worried about
Can Labour even fit on one site of Parliament, if I was Keir I work out a deal for 60 MPs to go to the Lib Dem’s and make them the official opposition
‘National Renewal.’ Translation: We need a decade to re-educate the English population on how the real world works and inform them we are not special.
I have gained great appreciation for the First Past The Post system. Clearly it rewards professionalism, behind the scenes collaboration and strategic thinking, and punishes stampeding populism. Keep it.
The USA uses FPTP.
I'm not sure how anyone can look at a party winning a landslide from just 20% of the electorate and say this is a sign of a healthy democracy!!
Thanks for posting
The adults are back in charge. Relief!
The adults that last time they were in created benefits Britain, Bankruptcy, illegal wars and the expenses scandal just to name a few 😂 you don't look young enough to be naive about what happens in the end every time we have a Labour government
enjoy this day britain :)
I thought his speech sounded rather poetic, hints of Eliot and Auden. I liked it. I was impressed. I am very hopeful for the future now.
Irish prime minister on his way over apparently. The reset begins….the mending of all those close relationships the lunatics tried to break !!
Starmer representing the constituency of Greater Israel
Nah. A greater israel will be harder to achieve with Starmer in post. People saying otherwise have another agenda, whatever that might be.
@@mikepost8965 I've got news for you, it's defacto already reality.
Sunak looked happy to have lost!
"Pearl Clutching" haha, love it. I always learn a new phrase with this trio ... 😅 🇬🇧
Liz Truss: graceless? Perish the thought. 😊
Maybe he wants us all to shut up. That would be nice
We party 🎉
Starmer needs to have a word in Biden's shell like
Checkout the editor of The Spectator magazine, Fraser Nelson, who is grinding his teeth with ire that the people of the country voted in a Labour government with his two sour grapes columns about Sunak's *"Perfect Resignation Speech"* and *"Labour's Potemkin Landslide"*. Perfect leaving speech but a woeful PM who forgot that his role was to serve the people, not his wealthy chums and his party's rich, self-serving donors!
Dear Fraser, Labour and the will of the great people of this country are stuck in your craw and your only cure is to gargle three times a day for the forceable future with undiluted TCP!
I would love for the three of you to get him on your show and question him about his craw-choking chagrin!
The man is foul. I can’t imagine he’d want to do it as any sort of scrutiny wouldn’t go do well.
Stability is important.
Starmer will be able to change the mood music by being quiet and competent while starting to implement their programme.
Just think-no more constant leadership campaigns, ERG trying to overrule the PM, no more tax fiddling by ministers or multibillion sweetheart deals with (very rich) pals, insulting our allies (the Lettuce), no more lies about levelling up or world-class anythings (BloJo).
The right wing and their bootlickers in the press will complain he's being boring, but they will always hate the Labour Party, so f**k them.
Yep I have sound too
Rishi the rascal sunken Sunaki's wife's attire.... a shoddy scarecrow!!
Here in Bath, a LD seat with 12K majority and Lab third behind the Tories last time, they put in no campaign at all. All we had was the postal leaflet. Big difference to the locals, when Labour fought very hard. Tories were invisible - they didn't even do the postal leaflet (which all candidates get free). Just as I predicted, Labour came 2nd this time, but LDs were comfortably back with 10K maj.
He sounds like John Major! To be honest, although Major was discreet, I dont recall him telling lies, non-stop. Perhaps Honesty will come with Power? Hmmm...
Except to his wife.
@@grizredford8407 You beat me to it :)
What is to be said about areas where reform has done well?
Hope they feel better soon, and manage to elect a proper representative next time.
Congratulations to intelligent service 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"Keir Starmer, our new Prime Minister. What now?" An interesting question, which you didn't answer. You did however discuss almost everything else though. I admire how you guys just keep going. Introvenious caffeine or Ever Ready batteries?
To be fair, what now is pretty much "He's having a cabinet meeting and running to the US", I don't think we can hope to know much more at this stage until announcements, leaks or other information come out.
Will he fulfil his election promise to investigate the money doled out during covid??
Yes - they’ve already erected gallows down at Whitehall. Apparently Boris is up this afternoon.
We won’t hold it against him if he has a sleep before the work starts today
Listed the tally results and left out the Greens which won the same amount of seats as Reform.
Reform got 5 in the end
Clacton, Ashfield, Yarmouth, Basildon-Thurrock, Boston-Skegness
I find interesting that Ashfield has got something in common with the other coastal seats they got
@@methanedirigible That extra 1 miffed me to an irrational degree. I so wanted them not to have more than the Greens - especially as one of their main "selling points" is being anti-green...
@@annphillips1086 Agreed. Now they can go on about how ‘successful’ their election was.
its unending self importance.
Does anyone know if Labour was allowed to have meetings with civil servants? There was discussion that the Tories were blocking talks to make the transition as painful as they could.
The to-do list will be immense and it will take too long for a single term. Just time to get on with the job and try to plough through what needs to be done and what they want to do.
We have swiftly moved from conservative to conservative.
Did you notice in Sunak's speech his wife was standing behind him with an umbrella...just in case. lol
Starmer is already showing the Tories why they got a drubbing. They simply failed to be a competent government.
Not my prime minister
05:00 Lewis says for the first time in a century Lab have won an election from opposition - am i missing something?? Dont get it
He says "this century" i.e. since 2000.
how do they fit 412 mps on one side in commans ???
Emily: Why did you turn your face away on Chanel 4 during the interview with corbyn on election night? I was very surprised, the way I picture you is of an impartial polite journalist. Why did you turned your face away when he expressed his views on the state of affairs with Palestine and Israel? I understand you have a Jewish upbringing and many Jews have turned against the protection of Palestinian civilians, but you are a journalist, a highly professional journalist.
Probably more of the same.
More debt, more immigration, more housing problems, more potholes and more rewriting of our history.
not enough years in me for patient 😂 get on with it
Emily is a true working class hero
New extremely meme-able ‘I’m sorry’ just dropped
Correction Global Media - “WE” didn’t vote for Starmer… 34% of voters voted for Starmer…… Global Media Journalists’ propaganda begins!!😂😂😂
You use ‘global’ as an insult I see.
So the largest percentage of those who voted, voted for Starmer?
@@methanedirigible Of those who voted -34 percent voted Labour. This is not an overall majority, the majority of people who voted didn’t vote Labour. Labour was the most popular party. No other party got more votes. In a multi-party system this is how democracy works.
@@garethking1639 Indeed. You could also say that the majority of voters chose progressive parties.
@@methanedirigible indeed
Soapy sounds salty 😂😂😂
They all go on summer holiday now?
Truss... Ungracious? I'm amazed
You can tell they all voted Labour😂
Because there's a hint of euphoria? That happens with adrenaline and exhaustion a lot of the time, and it is an exciting situation for a journalist to cover an election.
I don't mind who they voted for one way or the other, but that's the point, one shouldn't presume, it's the right of every citizen to vote as they wish, and for no one else to ever know which box they crossed in the privacy of the ballot box.
and?
They are Londoners course they voted Labour
@@simonkapadia7582 i didn't sense euphoria more bias really and a lack of nuance but maybe your right it might be down to the euphoria, because they didnt say anything different from say the New Statesmen pod.
@@jakehowie442 they may live in London, not sure any of them are from London.
Audio was working OK
Stop the Geno's***
Flock of Seagulls
"Our king"!?
Not my king.
He has special pension arrangements for his role as DPP that dont apply to anyone else funded by the taxpayer. Special legislation was passed in 2013 just for his retirement. It beggars belief and yet he had the cheek to object to lifting the cap on pension pots.
Disappointed that you didn't mention the 4 Green MPs.
His manifesto won’t fix the countries problems and it may very well lose in the 2029 election
country’s and done some polling about 2029 have you?
Sounds ok to me.must have fixed it
Give up Ivan
Haha, let's be honest everyone here needs to go to bed ...
Yep no sound
Check your device. My iPad sound is ok.
Go away.....
IN any other circumstances the stuff about Biden would be funny.
No volume on the video
The sound is ok from my iPad, check your device.
Guys. Get some sleep😂
You guys are so biased. What you don’t really address is that nothing Labour or Conservative can do to help a country in decline post Brexit and post Covid.
Now for the rise of the popularist right and the people finally taking back their country
We need to be very careful here. 4,000,000 is a lot of votes for Reform, but it's a tiny minority of votes cast. We can't allow a vocal minority of bigots to control the agenda. Yes, we need to demonstrate that we can and are managing immigration competently, but we shouldn't over-react. The Tories can worry about Reform, but the overwhelming majority of votes went elsewhere.
This is true. If you add the progressive Vs. broadly conservative votes together - how did the public actually vote?
@@methanedirigible If you combine the Tories with Reform, and Labour with the Greens and Liberal Democrats, you end up with 40% conservative and 53% progressive. Which is not a million miles away from what has just happened in France. Over the last few decades we've allowed ourselve to fall for the idea that the right is an unstoppable electoral juggernaught before which the left cowers in fear, but the truth is that if the left stand their ground we're more than a match for whatever the right tries to throw at us.
FIRST PAST THE POST IS DEAD, WHOEVER YOU VOTED FOR?
Who is going to change it?
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I can hear sound