Hi everyone,
as you know every now and again on Newscast we like to bring you a really long old chat,
the full version of one of the conversations that we have with some of our interviewees.
And on Saturday the 3rd of January 2026 I went to Downing Street to sit down with Keir Starmer who wanted to talk about why 2026 will be better than his political nightmare of 2025.
Can he turn it around?
What might happen in Ukraine?
What does he really want to do with our relationship with the EU?
And what about that troublesome friendship with his political chum, Donald Trump?
Here it is,
my conversation with Sir Keir Starmer
as he hopes to strike a much more cheery tone and put the bad times of 2025 behind him.
Prime Minister, 2026 could transform or perhaps even terminate your leadership.
So I wonder, what's your New Year's resolution?
Well, I'm looking forward to 2026.
I think it's going to be the year when we turn a corner as a country.
A lot of the decisions we took in 2025 will come into force effectively in 2026.
And I think that for many people who've waited 16,
17 long years for their living standards to improve,
for their public services to improve,
they need now to feel the change and that's what 2026 is going to be about.