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Speaker 1: Now UK, you're correspondent a quarter to six as Mike Pierce, Mike,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the show you've got And another day, another

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Speaker 1: Starmer update, and he's saying I'm here to stay.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a good morning. He says he will fight on.

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Speaker 2: He told a meeting of his own MPs he was

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Speaker 2: not prepared to stand down now. Speaking publicly a short

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Speaker 2: time ago, he said, and this was for the first

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Speaker 2: time since his row broke. He will never walk away

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Speaker 2: from his mandate he was given to change the country.

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Speaker 2: But some of his own party are still demanding he goes.

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Speaker 2: His press secretary in chief of staff have resigned. The

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Speaker 2: leader of the Labor Party in Scotland says he should

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Speaker 2: stand down. It was also revealed his former deputy Prime Minister,

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Speaker 2: Angela Rayner has prepared a website as part of potential

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Speaker 2: leadership challenge. Starmer has now won the backing though of

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Speaker 2: his senior minister, so I think he's safe immediately, but

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Speaker 2: we'll just have to wait and see public support me.

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Speaker 2: While for the Labour Party, he leads is just sixteen

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Speaker 2: percent according to a new poll, that's below all the

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Speaker 2: other major parties. The how of course, is that Starmer

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Speaker 2: gave Lord Manderson the top job of UK andmbass in

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Speaker 2: the United States. That was in spite of knowing he

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Speaker 2: had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Now, meanwhile, the King

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Speaker 2: has expressed his profound concern over allegations about the former

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Speaker 2: Prince Andrew. Buckingham Palace said the King will stand ready

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Speaker 2: to support the police over any claims that are made.

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Speaker 2: Police are investigating allegations Andrew passed on top secret government

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Speaker 2: information to Epstein. So this whole route continues, continues, continues.

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Speaker 1: What about the King of the North, Andy Burnham, As

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Speaker 1: he's backing Stamer, isn't he just stay in.

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Speaker 2: The Yeah, he's of course. You will remember he's been

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Speaker 2: blocked from standing in a crucial by election we have

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Speaker 2: here in two weeks time. I think, you know, senior

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Speaker 2: leaders in the party are coming to Starmer's aid for

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Speaker 2: the moment, but I think the real issue they face

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Speaker 2: is this that election is in two weeks time. All

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Speaker 2: the polls are saying they potentially will come last. There

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Speaker 2: is very little public support according to the polls for

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Speaker 2: Labour at the moment, and if that happens, I think

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Speaker 2: that's the next really danger point for Starmer. People don't

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Speaker 2: vote for the party. What happens then? Will there be

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Speaker 2: new calls for him to stand down? And then we

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Speaker 2: could perhaps see a leadership challenge.

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Speaker 1: Gotcha? Now the middles controversy at the Olympics that's going on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well this is an interesting one, okay. So now

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Speaker 2: organizers have been forced to apologize to some athletes after,

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Speaker 2: believe it or not, their medals broke. The issue seems

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Speaker 2: to be the ribven they put around their neck is

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Speaker 2: coming away from the actual medal. So the fixing that

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Speaker 2: holds it all together, it seems, well, just isn't fixing.

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Speaker 2: A number of willers have had problems and complained. The

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Speaker 2: issue came to light at a press conference where athletes

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Speaker 2: held up their medals that were broken. An investigation is

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Speaker 2: underway to find out what's gone wrong. Now organizers say

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Speaker 2: it's the last thing they want. They say everything must

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Speaker 2: and will be perfect in the end, So an investigation there,

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Speaker 2: but some very very unhappy athletes.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like it too, and rightly so too, Mike, Thank

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Speaker 1: you for that, Mike Pierce, UK europe correspondent.

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