Enda Brady: UK correspondent on whether Labour's at risk of losing Wales in the local election

Over in the UK, Labour's bracing itself for a set of local, Scottish and Welsh election results.

Reports claim a poor showing in these elections could bring about the end of Keir Starmer’s prime ministership, and significant losses are projected. 

UK correspondent Enda Brady says there's growing calls for Starmer's resignation already - and people are losing confidence as Reform gets more attention. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Brady UK correspondentello.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Inda, Hey, Heather, great to speak to you.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Right, let's talk about politics and you're part of the
world predict what's going to happen today.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
I think it's going to be a bad day for
Keir Starmer and Labor and I think the knives will
be sharpening as I speak in the background, a lot
of people waiting for the opportunity to oust him. So look,
the polls are predicting that Labor could lose as many
as eighteen hundred council seats across England, and then you've
got national elections in Scotland for the Scottish Parliament, and

(00:29):
then you've got Welsh elections for the Welsh Senate. So
they are national elections standalone devolved parliament government in Wales
and Scotland. Reform UK are going to hammer Labor in England.
I think they'll push hard in Scotland as well, but
ultimately the Scottish National Party SMP will get back in
in Scotland and Labor will lose Wales as well. So

(00:50):
there will be big questions this time tomorrow about whether
or not Ker Starmer is demand to lead Labor to
the next general election in three years.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
How soon after the election results came then do they
move with the letter.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
So I think the letter will be circulated by this
time tomorrow morning. It'll be time to perfection. Breakfast news bulletins,
all the morning's newspapers will have it. And this is
a letter that apparently has already been written saying that
you know you need to set out a timetable now
for your departure. We have no confidence in you. And
what I find amazing is a lot of the people

(01:22):
who've signed it, from what I'm hearing, they only got
in in twenty twenty four, so starmer led them into
their work, into their jobs and their political careers. These
are new politicians. Let's see what he can do. But
he's struggling. He really is struggling.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Well, those are the very people who should be supporting him,
right because generally the people who come and your cohort
supports you. The fact he's lost them already is saying something,
isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
I think that's a very wise observation. Yes, if these
were old, disgruntled backbenchers who've been overlooked for cabinet positions,
you would be forgiven for thinking this was a storm
and a teacup. You're right. These are the young new
politicians who've basically thought with so much hopeing you as
the rest of the country had, and then we need
to move on. But look, there's a lot to go.

(02:06):
The country is just beginning to vote. Now, let's see
what happens.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Hey, So what's the pub chain? Boss said about the
drinkers at the airports?

Speaker 2 (02:14):
So this is a big route. This week started off
by Ryanair's boss Michael O'Leary, who is never short of
a blunt word and loves a headline. He came out
and said, I am sick of the amount of aircraft
having to be turned around or diverted because of drunk
people on board. The airports need to stop selling alcohol.
There is no reason for people to be drinking beer

(02:36):
at four and five am, and then the problem becomes
our problem after they've had more alcohol on board. So
he's come out with that. Tim Martin is the boss
of Weatherspoons, eight hundred pub chains nationwide, a lot of
them in airports. And Tim Martin says that it's not
his fault, it's not his pub's fault, and he says
that it's completely unpoliceable, and he says it will be

(02:57):
like Big Brother at the airport. And I picked Tim
Martin up on this. It is entirely policeable because how
many times have you been at an airport when you
go to buy something duty free and they say, can
I see your boarding pass? So basically you just make
it that people can have one alcoholic drink per boarding
pass and after that no more booze. And then we

(03:17):
stop seeing videos on Instagram with English people trying to
kill each other on the plane to Spain.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
I feel like this is a europe problem, Like we
don't really have this problem. I mean, I guess the
Aussies have it with the people coming back from Bali,
the Bogans from Bali. It does happen there. What happened
when the Pope tried to change is Zedricinda.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
I love this story. So a Catholic priest who's American
and clearly knows the Pope and his inner circle has
been talking about this. So last year when he was
just Robert Prevost, the man who is now Pope Leo,
he rang his bank in Chicago from the Vatican and
he went through all the security checks and what he

(03:56):
was wanting to do was change a phone number to
a vat and phone number and change his address to
the Vatican. And the lady, you know, we've all been
there customer service not being particularly helpful or friendly. Basically,
computer said no, and he she said to him, look,
our rules are you need to come into the branch

(04:16):
to do this. You need to bring ID you will
need to come see me face to face, and she
didn't fuck the name Robert Prevost at the time. And
then he very gently and kindly apparently said very humbly,
my dear, would it help if I told you I'm
now Pope Leo? And she hung up. She thought he

(04:39):
was joking, and a friend of the pope's has told
that story, so there you go. Eventually he got sorted
because he contacted a bishop in Chicago who knew the
CEO of the bank and everything got smoothed out. So
even the Pope doesn't get any good of customer service these.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Oh how good is that? In the Thank you very
much for that, into Brady, UK correspondent. The same thing
happened to the Pope, who was played by Hannibal Likda
who was Annibal Lecter keV stop talking to Ender who
played Annibal. Come on, Anthony Hopkins, Anthony Hopkins, thank you.
I'm still having this woman's moment that's been going on
for about an hour and a half. By the way,
Anthony Hopkins played the Pope. He played the creepy pope,

(05:16):
the German Pope Ratsinger. Do you remember this? Oh, it's
all coming back to me now. As Celendi On once said,
you know what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the
movie The Two Popes, And in The Two Popes, Ratsinger
tries to change do something, and he has the same
problem because no one wants to believe him that he's
the pope trying it is it wasn't him? Or was

(05:36):
it the one that was played by the Oh lord no,
was it the other pope, the Argentinian Pope when he
tried to make the phone call and book his own tickets.
That's what it was. Sorry that you had to sit
through that. Sorry about that.

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