Keir Starmer opens up on ‘biggest concern’ if he becomes prime minister

Keir Starmer opens up on 'biggest concern' if he becomes prime ministerThe News Agents, Global

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00:00 I know it'll be difficult. It's been difficult already along the way.

00:02 It'll be even more difficult in the final weeks and months into the general

00:06 election and even more difficult in government because government is always

00:10 more difficult than opposition. I'm not daunted by that.

00:12 My only concern is about my family.

00:16 I've always been concerned about them.

00:18 I've got a wife who has her own life

00:22 and I need to ensure that she can live her life in the way that she wants to.

00:27 I've got two children. I've got a 15 year old boy.

00:30 And a 12 year old girl.

00:31 And my biggest concern is about the only concern I have going forward is

00:36 asking myself over and over again, particularly at the moment,

00:40 how do I protect them as we go into this?

00:43 Why do you say particularly at the moment?

00:45 Because, you know, there's been intense pressure, I think,

00:49 on lots of us in the last few weeks.

00:52 These are some of the colleague discussions I was having with colleagues

00:55 on Wednesday, because in addition to the emotional turmoil

00:59 that those people are going through, some of them rebelled.

01:02 But they're good people trying to deal with a very difficult situation.

01:07 On top of all that.