UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's travelling to the Persian Gulf to help shore-up the US and Iran ceasefire.
Both sides have accepted Pakistan's proposal to pause fighting two weeks, which looks shaky after Israel bombed Lebanon overnight.
Global oil prices have since plunged below US$100 a barrel.
UK Correspondent Rod Liddle told Mike Hosking Starmer’s looking to replace Donald Trump as an ally Middle East countries can have some conviction in.
He says the UK Prime Minister has improved his standing both within his own country, and likely in the Middle East as well by being very wary of Trump’s ambitions.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
To Britain we go around little Good morning, Good morning
to you, Mike. I'm reading from Bournemouth to London, Weymouth
to Maidenhead. It has been hot. It has been twenty
six degrees. Have you had a lovely day and sun? Chuck?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
If only that were true from Bournemouth to Maidenhead may
be up where I am. There was a frost this morning.
But it is true that it has been unseasonably warm
in most of the country and people are thoroughly enjoying it.
I've still got the oil heating on, which will cost
me a packet, but it is unseasonably warm in the south.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Here, but not as much as it would have cost
you if the war had continued, which it appears not
to for now. Starmers in the Middle East looking to
do exactly.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
What well, sort of replace Trump as an ally who
the Middle East countries can have some conviction in given
that this has been a day bark, hasn't it. I
mean I would have thought most people agreed that it
have been a datemark and that Starma has improved his
(01:06):
position in this country, and I think has probably improved
his position in the Middle East as well by being
very wary of Trump's ambitions, and so he's meeting Saudi Arabia,
is probably also going to take in the UAE and Qatar,
all countries which we desperately depend upon as allies, and
(01:29):
we'll be saying, look, there will be some sort of
normality to this in the end. Which the question which
remains is this slightly vague suggestion that he's going to
do anything about keeping the straight up horn muzz open.
My feeling is that if the Americans can't do it,
then us, with our three pedalos and a canoe, are
(01:50):
going to be even more hard stretched.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
That's sort of what I was sort of wanting to
ask him if I had the chance. I mean, it's
all very well being in the Middle East and being
in Saudi Arabia, and I feel sorry for the Gulf
States at the moment because they do need the straight
and they've been constrained dreadfully. What literally can Starma do
to alleviate the problem?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Well, we have one of our what do you call
them aircraft carriers there, don't I do know. What you
said is, I don't know if they're going to be used.
So far as we know, the peace deal between America
and Iran allows Iran to continue controlling the straight rumas,
which has many American politicians saying is absolutely catastrophic, catastrophic
(02:30):
for US, catastrophic even more so for the Gulf States.
So literally, what he's going to do. I have no
idea that there was a suggestion there might be some
kind of pan European force which might police the straight performers,
but all of that is off. It has seems to
(02:50):
be the case. Trump has signed over the straight offormans
to Iran. It is. It is perplexing and I think
very worrying.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
It is now I take it this goes back to
the by election Gordon and they had a look at
this so called family voting, which we've never heard of
in this country. It's an unusual thing and Farage was
all over it, and I thought they had an investigation
whereby they found none of it, to which he decried
the result. But what's the Electoral Commission warning against and
does it actually exist?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well, it does exist. An independent and in fact left
of center pressure group monitored what happened in the in
the Goldland Denton BI election and found out that twelve
percent of votes cast in in the polling stations that
they monitored had bits of family voting taking places as
(03:44):
that they went on, which is basically men accompanying women
into the polling booths and telling them what way to vote.
I mean, I've tried that with my wife. Doesn't work.
But there was a kind of police inquiry which said
that no crime had been committed, which is questionable. But
(04:08):
it's certainly true that this happens, and it's well known
to happen within particularly Pakistani Bangladeshih communities within the country.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
But if you threaten the husband jail time, you'd need
to prove it in court, and to proven in court,
what's the wife going to go, Yes, he did and
he's guilty. I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Well. Rather, that's rather the point, and I think that
the only thing you could do is an actor law
which stopped more than one person going towards the polling brigs.
But we kind of have that law anyway, and it
didn't No one took any notice of it in the
last by election, but it has led to a number
(04:48):
of articles today saying that the police will be on
the watch out for husbands telling their wives what way
to vote, which will come as a shock to the husbands,
I think, both those in the Asian community and those beyond.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Mate, you have a good one and we will catch
up next week. Rod a little out of Britain. The
other couple of things you need to know about Kemy Badnock.
They're in the doctor's strike at the moment, of course,
six days. I think this will be the second day. Technically, anyway,
she would upon becoming Prime Minister band doctor strikes. I
don't know whether she can do that technically, but she's
claiming she can. Meantime, the BBC remember that BAFT nonsense
(05:25):
where the Turette syndrome campaign had yelled out a racial
slur involuntarily because he's got turets. They had a look
at that. The ECU, which is the executive Complaints Unit
at the BBC, had a look and they've upheld the
complaint should never have happened, the point being it wasn't
edited out, so it aired on BBC one on a
(05:47):
two hour delay and they still didn't get to it,
and it remained available on Eyeplayer the morning after and
they still hadn't got to it. So I think I
probably agree with them, to be fair. Church of England
actually I'm surprised this isn't getting more news around the
world This morning. The Church of England is planning to
istion an apology for their forced adoption. This happened three
decades after WW two, so there were tens of thousands
(06:07):
of these babies in Britain born to women who were unmarried.
They ran about one hundred mother and baby homes across England.
Of course the words. They haven't issued it yet, but
BBC has seen it. We are deeply sorry, so it's
taken them a time to get there. For more from
the mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to news talks. It'd
be from six am weekdays, or follow the podcast on
(06:28):
iHeartRadio
To Britain we go around little Good morning, Good morning
to you, Mike. I'm reading from Bournemouth to London, Weymouth
to Maidenhead. It has been hot. It has been twenty
six degrees. Have you had a lovely day and sun? Chuck?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
If only that were true from Bournemouth to Maidenhead may
be up where I am. There was a frost this morning.
But it is true that it has been unseasonably warm
in most of the country and people are thoroughly enjoying it.
I've still got the oil heating on, which will cost
me a packet, but it is unseasonably warm in the south.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Here, but not as much as it would have cost
you if the war had continued, which it appears not
to for now. Starmers in the Middle East looking to
do exactly.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
What well, sort of replace Trump as an ally who
the Middle East countries can have some conviction in given
that this has been a day bark, hasn't it. I
mean I would have thought most people agreed that it
have been a datemark and that Starma has improved his
(01:06):
position in this country, and I think has probably improved
his position in the Middle East as well by being
very wary of Trump's ambitions, and so he's meeting Saudi Arabia,
is probably also going to take in the UAE and Qatar,
all countries which we desperately depend upon as allies, and
(01:29):
we'll be saying, look, there will be some sort of
normality to this in the end. Which the question which
remains is this slightly vague suggestion that he's going to
do anything about keeping the straight up horn muzz open.
My feeling is that if the Americans can't do it,
then us, with our three pedalos and a canoe, are
(01:50):
going to be even more hard stretched.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
That's sort of what I was sort of wanting to
ask him if I had the chance. I mean, it's
all very well being in the Middle East and being
in Saudi Arabia, and I feel sorry for the Gulf
States at the moment because they do need the straight
and they've been constrained dreadfully. What literally can Starma do
to alleviate the problem?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Well, we have one of our what do you call
them aircraft carriers there, don't I do know. What you
said is, I don't know if they're going to be used.
So far as we know, the peace deal between America
and Iran allows Iran to continue controlling the straight rumas,
which has many American politicians saying is absolutely catastrophic, catastrophic
(02:30):
for US, catastrophic even more so for the Gulf States.
So literally, what he's going to do. I have no
idea that there was a suggestion there might be some
kind of pan European force which might police the straight performers,
but all of that is off. It has seems to
(02:50):
be the case. Trump has signed over the straight offormans
to Iran. It is. It is perplexing and I think
very worrying.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
It is now I take it this goes back to
the by election Gordon and they had a look at
this so called family voting, which we've never heard of
in this country. It's an unusual thing and Farage was
all over it, and I thought they had an investigation
whereby they found none of it, to which he decried
the result. But what's the Electoral Commission warning against and
does it actually exist?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well, it does exist. An independent and in fact left
of center pressure group monitored what happened in the in
the Goldland Denton BI election and found out that twelve
percent of votes cast in in the polling stations that
they monitored had bits of family voting taking places as
(03:44):
that they went on, which is basically men accompanying women
into the polling booths and telling them what way to vote.
I mean, I've tried that with my wife. Doesn't work.
But there was a kind of police inquiry which said
that no crime had been committed, which is questionable. But
(04:08):
it's certainly true that this happens, and it's well known
to happen within particularly Pakistani Bangladeshih communities within the country.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
But if you threaten the husband jail time, you'd need
to prove it in court, and to proven in court,
what's the wife going to go, Yes, he did and
he's guilty. I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Well. Rather, that's rather the point, and I think that
the only thing you could do is an actor law
which stopped more than one person going towards the polling brigs.
But we kind of have that law anyway, and it
didn't No one took any notice of it in the
last by election, but it has led to a number
(04:48):
of articles today saying that the police will be on
the watch out for husbands telling their wives what way
to vote, which will come as a shock to the husbands,
I think, both those in the Asian community and those beyond.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Mate, you have a good one and we will catch
up next week. Rod a little out of Britain. The
other couple of things you need to know about Kemy Badnock.
They're in the doctor's strike at the moment, of course,
six days. I think this will be the second day. Technically, anyway,
she would upon becoming Prime Minister band doctor strikes. I
don't know whether she can do that technically, but she's
claiming she can. Meantime, the BBC remember that BAFT nonsense
(05:25):
where the Turette syndrome campaign had yelled out a racial
slur involuntarily because he's got turets. They had a look
at that. The ECU, which is the executive Complaints Unit
at the BBC, had a look and they've upheld the
complaint should never have happened, the point being it wasn't
edited out, so it aired on BBC one on a
(05:47):
two hour delay and they still didn't get to it,
and it remained available on Eyeplayer the morning after and
they still hadn't got to it. So I think I
probably agree with them, to be fair. Church of England
actually I'm surprised this isn't getting more news around the
world This morning. The Church of England is planning to
istion an apology for their forced adoption. This happened three
decades after WW two, so there were tens of thousands
(06:07):
of these babies in Britain born to women who were unmarried.
They ran about one hundred mother and baby homes across England.
Of course the words. They haven't issued it yet, but
BBC has seen it. We are deeply sorry, so it's
taken them a time to get there. For more from
the mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to news talks. It'd
be from six am weekdays, or follow the podcast on
(06:28):
iHeartRadio
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