00:00So it's interesting to say that it's one scandal away and a lot of the news that we are reading
00:06seems to be that Keir Starmer is in hot water over all sorts of things. Mandelson,
00:12the immigration situation in the country, an aide having to resign. So is Keir Starmer pretty much
00:20on his way out? Well, it's probably a little bit too soon to say that, but it does feel as though
00:27this government is falling apart. Just two weeks ago, Keir Starmer announced phase two. He came
00:33back from the summer and he announced phase two of his government. And everybody said to that,
00:38well, what on earth was phase one? Because you don't seem to have achieved much in phase one. But
00:42phase two, he said, was going to be all about delivery. And since he's uttered those words,
00:47his party, his government have had nothing but disaster after disaster. The deputy prime minister,
00:54Angela Rayner had to resign over false claims she made about her property purchases. And then you've
01:02had the Mandelson scandal that has bubbled on and on and on. And there's a lot of questions about
01:06how much Keir Starmer knew about the nature of Mandelson's friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
01:14And when was he informed? And at what stage did he decide to defend Mandelson in Parliament last week?
01:21So lots and lots of questions hanging over him. And it does feel, it feels we've got quite used to
01:28having governments in crisis at the moment. Since Brexit in 2016, we've had a Tory party that was in
01:34government for about 14 years that had a succession of crises. And it feels like Labour are just carrying
01:41that on. We seem to have a political class, a Labour party and a Tory party and a Conservative party
01:47that just seem to go from disaster to disaster. And that is why you're seeing Nigel Farage,
01:52of course, Donald Trump's friend, doing so well in the polls with his reform party. And a lot of
01:57people think he will be the next prime minister of Great Britain.
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