Keir Starmer’s debut on the global stage
Political Fix12 Heinä 2024

Keir Starmer’s debut on the global stage

Keir Starmer’s quest for closer EU ties received a tacit nod from US President Joe Biden as the UK prime minister made his global debut at the Nato summit in Washington. Biden told Starmer that Britain was ‘the knot tying the transatlantic alliance together’. The FT’s George Parker, Robert Shrimsley and Stephen Bush sit down in London to discuss the government’s foreign policy agenda, with Lucy Fisher dialling in from Washington with her take. Plus, the FT’s William Wallis lays out the stark truth behind the UK’s prisons crisis, and what the government might be able to do about it.


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Joe Biden tells Keir Starmer UK is ‘knot tying transatlantic alliance together’


Labour to free prisoners early as Keir Starmer warns ‘simply not enough’ spaces


James Timpson: the key-cutter taking on England’s prisons crisis


UK economy grows at double forecast pace


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The very resistible rise of Nigel Farage


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Presented by Lucy Fisher. Produced by Audrey Tinline with Leah Quinn. The executive producer is Manuela Saragosa. Audio mix and original music by Breen Turner. The FT’s head of audio is Cheryl Brumley.


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