Enda Brady: UK correspondent on the Labour MPs claiming they've got the numbers to roll Keir Starmer

Over in the UK, some Labour MPs claim they've got the necessary numbers to roll Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Starmer's popularity has been declining and Reform remains a consistent threat in the polls - and there's clear mood for change.

UK correspondent Enda Brady explained further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Brady a UK correspondence with us elo Inda Heather,
how are you very well?

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Thank you?

Speaker 3 (00:04):
Got a Russian ship near you.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Have you? Yes, just outside the UK waters off the
coast of Scotland. It's called the Yantar, and this ship
basically sails around European waters observing and monitoring cables under
sea cables. It is not there to send Christmas cards.
It is not there for the good of anyone in

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the United Kingdom or Western Europe. It's a Russian spyship.
This story takes a twist, however, because the UK Defense
Secretary John Healey has held a special press conference. He's
come out and said that the Orif pilots were flying
overhead recently observing just keeping an eye on what the
Russians are doing, basically, and they were subjected to laser

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beams being directed at them from this Russian ship, the Antar.
So the UK government has had enough. Heally has come
out and said, look directly to Vladimir Putin in this
news conference, we see you, we see what you were doing,
and if that ship moves into UK waters, we will
be there in seconds. So it's getting very very interesting

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that the Russians have the cheek to do this.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah, it really is now.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
I meanwhile, though, domestic matters, so the Labor and psrick
and they've got the numbers to roll so Kia.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yes, this is a group on the left of the
Labor Party called the Tribune Group, and they clearly feel
that the time has come to get rid of Ker Starmer.
Now they need eighty members of Parliament, eighty elected Labor
MPs to oust a sitting Labor Prime Minister. And there's
been a lot of speculation lately about will Wes Streeting,

(01:40):
the Health Secretary, move will Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Manchester,
try and get back into Parliament to get Starmar out,
and this group suddenly out of nowhere, have let it
be known that guess what, guys, we've got the numbers now.
I think nothing's going to happen before Christmas, but clearly
plans are a foot, and I say plans plural inside

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the Labor Party to get Starmer out. We've got local
elections coming up in May. Do they wait until a
disastrous set of local elections and reform and Nigel Farage
smashing the polls and winning, or did they move beforehand.
It's fascinating to see what's going to happen next.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Well, but if they've got the numbers, why don't they
move immediately?

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Because I think some of them want Andy Burnham, the
mayor of Manchester, to be the next prime minister, and
he can't do that because he's not a member of Parliament.
So to get burn him in, they've got to get
someone to put their hand up and say, yeah, you
can have my seat. And basically Turkeys are not going
to vote for Christmas. I can't see any mp suddenly
turning around saying yeah, you can have my seat.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Chaz Well, that's a really convoluted plan, isn't it. In that?

Speaker 1 (02:46):
I mean like if you're if you've got the numbers,
but you're waiting for somebody to basically fall on this
sword to let Andy and then Andy has to be
ready for it. I mean that could take quite some time,
couldn't it, by which time we streetings in.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, exactly. Look, when you talk about plans and labor people,
they waited fourteen years to get into government and quite
clearly there was no plan. That's what we're seeing. I mean,
there's no communication. Starmer was described to me by someone
very senior in Westminster last week as a dud and
I just think they're really really struggling. But clearly moves

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are afoot.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, okay, that's interesting New Lilsen. What's going on with
the westin shops in London.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
So there's a big fear over the reporting and the
narrative around crime in London and phone snatching and that
if you come in for a day to do your
Christmas shopping, if you come in from the countryside in
the Home counties, you get to train in big family traditions.
You know, everyone goes to London shopping in the west End,
Regent Street, Oxford Street, Bond Street. You know, there is

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a lot of crime in London, but a lot of
the businesses feel that it's being overhyped and the end
result is families are staying away. So to head that off,
six hundred businesses have got together soarly the police are
super stretched anyway, but these six hundred businesses have got
together and said, right, we'll fund our own private security
patrols to keep the area safe. So that's where we're

(04:10):
at in London. The police are so stretched, the shops
are clubbing together to pay private security and that stories
out there today and they hope that families will see
this and think, actually, do you know what it is
safe to go into London?

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Jesu's pretty die. You've been talking about this for a
very long time. Indo. I appreciate it. Into Brady, UK Correspondent.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
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