Western Standard - July 05, 2024


Keir Starmer Leads Labour to Victory, Set to Be Next Prime Minister


Episode Stats

Length

1 minute

Words per Minute

166.9219

Word Count

327

Sentence Count

28


Summary

Andy's reaction to Labour's landslide victory in the general election and the election of Keir Starmer as the next Prime Minister of the UK. Andy's reaction and reaction to the result, and his thoughts on the future of the country.


Transcript

00:00:01.000 There we go. Everything's gone red. Andy's doing a little snoopy dance at the side of me.
00:00:06.340 He's very happy indeed. Labour has won the 2024 election.
00:00:11.180 Not only have they won, they have absolutely smashed it out of the park.
00:00:16.380 It is what they call a Labour landslide, maybe a super majority.
00:00:22.040 Certainly Keir Starmer, a very happy man this morning.
00:00:26.160 Rishi Sunak said he is on his way back to London.
00:00:29.080 One can only imagine that he will be speaking to the king.
00:00:32.020 He's already rung, he says, the leader of the Labour Party to concede and to congratulate him.
00:00:39.140 He'll be heading back up to his constituency in, thank you very much, in North Yorkshire a little bit later on today.
00:00:46.660 Whereas this man will be heading to Downey Street to be the next leader of this country.
00:00:52.460 Of this country, I should say, the prime minister is that man there, Keir Starmer.
00:01:00.060 Wow. And when you see it on the screen, it comes home now. It's real.
00:01:04.460 We've waited so long for this moment as a party. It's been a hard 14 years.
00:01:10.340 The struggles people have had, austerity and then Brexit and all that brought and the pandemic and the cost of it.
00:01:17.460 It's been a hard, hard time. And, you know, just to see this moment of change come through now, it's just a wonderful moment.
00:01:26.000 As I said before, for young people in this country who've only ever kind of had negativity from politics, this will be a massive moment in their lives.
00:01:35.120 And the fact that we've got a big majority means Keir will get things through Parliament, change can happen.
00:01:43.100 The country needed this moment.
00:01:44.660 The country needed aorge to start with It mentioned as a big man.
00:01:48.520 So everything was done
00:01:50.600 I will talk about it in silence.
00:01:51.180 The rest of the time
00:01:54.140 On the line
00:01:54.720 people needed to have no idea
00:01:55.580 of wind
00:01:56.220 of
00:01:57.060 them