Enda Brady: UK correspondent on Keir Starmer's popularity dropping

Over in the UK, there's reports of dissatisfaction in the political ranks.

There are fears from those loyal to Sir Keir Starmer that his job might be under immediate threat, with rumours circulating the Labour leader might be rolled. 

UK correspondent Enda Brady says Labour's popularity has taken a hit in new polls and concerns are mounting ahead of the upcoming Budget.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Brady UK correspondence with that's hello.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Indo, Hey Heather, great to speak to again.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
So it's coming up to the deadline for the beebe.
What are they going to do?

Speaker 2 (00:09):
I think they're going to apologize. They have to. I
mean they've got no choice. Whether that calls off the
dogs of legality that Trump has unleashed or is threatening
to unleash. We'll wait and see. One billion dollars is
what he wants from the BBC for damage to his reputation,
for trying to steal the election or election interference. It's

(00:29):
a big twenty four hours really for the BBC. And
from what I'm hearing, they've got headhunters looking for a
new director general and the whole process might take until
September next year. So talk about leaderless and rudderless. They're
looking at ten months basically of having no boss.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Well okay, now let me talk. Let me ask you
what is going on with Stamma. Tell me what your
take on this is.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
I think he's very weak. I mean we knew for
a guy who'd come in with a landslide, he is
not that popular. It was more a vote that the
public were saying we don't like the Conservatives what they've done,
so there was no great love for Starmer in the
first place. He's a poor communicator. We're finding out that
he's quite a poor leader and prime minister, and I

(01:16):
think there are machinations behind the scenes, deep inside his
own cabinet and Labor Party to get him out. Now.
The budget is coming up in November twenty sixth, and
then there's local elections next May. Labor are now one
percent ahead, one percentage point ahead of the Greens. That's
where they are at the moment, and hardly anybody here

(01:37):
votes for the Green Party, as bad as that sounds,
so I think quite clearly people inside government are thinking, Okay,
I'm going to make my move. One guy clearly tried
to make a move this week and has been slapped down.
And I think Starmer's all the week or for it now?

Speaker 1 (01:55):
This is is it streeting? Are you talking about?

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah? The Health Secretary briefings against him.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
He denies that he's made a move, So is he lying?

Speaker 2 (02:06):
I would say draw your own conclusions there. As the
Manchester who was suddenly giving interviews and then went to
party conference and realized it was not supor for him
it's all very odd. I mean, if they don't do
something soon, they will be out of a job and
out of government. I think the local elections in May

(02:27):
are going to be catastrophic for labor. You will see
Reform picking off council seats in the UK where they
never would have done before, Like a a TV show
last week about the rise of reform in Scotland and
this is an English Nationalist party led by Nigel Faraj
and they're topping the polls in Scotland.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
It's mean to lie now. The reason I was asking
you if Streeting was lying was because one alternative theory
is actually that he hasn't made a move yet. He's
very very early days. But what Kirstam is trying to
do is basically rush him out now. Either way right,
something is differently a foot. So how long do you
give Stama in the role before he's out?

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Well, I think we're gonna see catastrophic polling off the
back of the budget. If income tax goes up here
on November twenty sixth, taxing per mile electric vehicles, I
think people will just be so sick of this government
after a year and a half. I mean, there's nothing
I can tell you he has done. There's nothing I
can tell you he has achieved in a year and

(03:29):
a half. And as much as the big black hole
in the budget is the fault of the previous government,
the public aren't interested. Everyone thought this would be great
new people in short term fix. Politics doesn't work like that.
It's I think the UK at the moment is like
turning around an oil tanker and it's shipping a lot
of water at the same time.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Right, spill the tea for us? What was wrong with Hitler?

Speaker 2 (03:52):
So? Did he have a micro penis? This is apparently
a thing. There is Kalman syndrome, a sexual disorder. And
there is a documentary to be screened this weekend where
a team of scientists and these are top top professionals,
and I think they were very much aware of the
gravity of looking into the DNA of a monster like

(04:13):
Adolf Hitler. They found that an American soldier who was
in Hitler's bunker after everything had happened, and obviously he's dead.
There was a big patch of blood on the sofa
and this American soldier took a rather grim souvenir. He
cut out the patch of fabric with the most blood
on it, brought it back to the United States and

(04:35):
it's been in the Gettysburg Museum ever since. What these
scientists have done is they've taken that patch, managed to
start a full DNA profile from the patch, and then
to square off whether this truly was Hitler's blood, they
found a living descendant on the Y chromosome side, so
the father's side in Germany, and it all matches up

(04:58):
out of the and I've gone through what he's kind
of biological makeup and what they can glean from his DNA.
And he had a sexual disorder called result in a
testical not dropping or having a micro penis. And of
course there was dancehall songs during the nineteen forties a

(05:19):
LinkedIn on having ball so as much as they were
joking back then, possibly very close to the trip.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
Wow, thanks very much and I appreciate that gossip for
us into Brady UK corresponding.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
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