1
00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,400
Speaker 1: Already and this is the Daily OS.

2
00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:04,480
Speaker 2: This is the Daily OS.

3
00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:06,960
Speaker 1: Oh now it makes sense.

4
00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:17,520
Speaker 2: Good morning and welcome to the Daily OS. It's Monday,

5
00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:18,320
Speaker 2: the eighth of July.

6
00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:19,800
Speaker 1: I'm zara, i'm emma.

7
00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:23,600
Speaker 2: Fourteen years of Conservative government in the UK has come

8
00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:24,520
Speaker 2: to an end.

9
00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:28,520
Speaker 3: And as Big Band strikes tenth, the exit poll is

10
00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:33,080
Speaker 3: protecting a Labor landslide. Labor will form government in the

11
00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:36,360
Speaker 3: UK after an election result that's been described as a

12
00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:38,000
Speaker 3: landslide victory.

13
00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:41,000
Speaker 1: It comes after one of the most tumultuous periods in

14
00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:42,200
Speaker 1: recent British history.

15
00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:45,880
Speaker 3: We're talking about an era that saw five Conservative prime ministers,

16
00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:49,960
Speaker 3: Britain's departure from the European Union, a global pandemic and

17
00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:53,800
Speaker 3: the death of Queen Elizabeth, among other things. We will

18
00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:55,640
Speaker 3: take you through the results and tell you everything you

19
00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:58,840
Speaker 3: need to know about Britain's new Prime Minister, Kirs Starmer

20
00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:00,880
Speaker 3: in today's deep dive at First Zara.

21
00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:02,080
Speaker 1: What's making headlines.

22
00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:07,680
Speaker 2: Three children have died in a house fire in Sydney's

23
00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:10,880
Speaker 2: West that is now being treated as a domestic related

24
00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,119
Speaker 2: multiple homicide. A twenty eight year old man has been

25
00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:18,640
Speaker 2: arrested after police say quote direct actions were taken that

26
00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:22,560
Speaker 2: were intentional of keeping police, other first responders and neighbors

27
00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:25,560
Speaker 2: out of the property while it was on fire. The

28
00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:29,240
Speaker 2: three children were aged between ten months and four years old.

29
00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:33,080
Speaker 2: Four other children were taken to hospital in a stable condition.

30
00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:37,480
Speaker 2: Always remember help is available on one eight hundred seven

31
00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:41,720
Speaker 2: three seven seven three to two.

32
00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:45,200
Speaker 1: Community based preschool staff in New South Wales have launched

33
00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:48,520
Speaker 1: fair Work action amid calls for a twenty five percent

34
00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:53,520
Speaker 1: pay rise. The Independent Education Union says experienced preschool teachers

35
00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,240
Speaker 1: in the state earn around ninety thousand dollars a year,

36
00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:00,800
Speaker 1: compared to experienced teachers in public schools, who earn around

37
00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:04,240
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty two thousand dollars. The union filed

38
00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:07,200
Speaker 1: an application for an early educator pay rise with the

39
00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,560
Speaker 1: Fair Work Commission last week. Its New South Wales branch

40
00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:13,919
Speaker 1: secretary is urging the state government to quote step up

41
00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,600
Speaker 1: and address the staff shortages caused by inadequate pay.

42
00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:24,360
Speaker 2: Mustard Possession has been elected as Iran's next president. It

43
00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,360
Speaker 2: comes after the country's previous president was killed in a

44
00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:31,880
Speaker 2: helicopter crash earlier this year. After winning, Possession, who is

45
00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:35,120
Speaker 2: described as a centrist politician in the country and was

46
00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:39,359
Speaker 2: previously a heart surgeon, said and I quote, I am

47
00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,200
Speaker 2: the servant of the people of Iran. We will serve you,

48
00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:43,880
Speaker 2: dear people of our country.

49
00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:47,880
Speaker 1: And today's good news.

50
00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,400
Speaker 3: A clinical trial in South Africa and Uganda has proven

51
00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:55,919
Speaker 3: to be one hundred percent effective in preventing HIV in women.

52
00:02:56,600 --> 00:03:00,080
Speaker 3: A new pre exposure drug was administered twice in one

53
00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:03,240
Speaker 3: year to a group of five thousand women. Women are

54
00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:07,520
Speaker 3: disproportionately affected by HIV in Sub Saharan Africa, according to

55
00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:11,239
Speaker 3: the United Nations. Researchers say they hope the treatment will

56
00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:15,120
Speaker 3: address the stigma and discrimination that's prevented the uptake of

57
00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:19,600
Speaker 3: preventative medication in some communities. The injection was also shown

58
00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:28,360
Speaker 3: to be more effective than daily HIV prevention pills.

59
00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:31,560
Speaker 2: So m. The US election and the showdown between Trump

60
00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:35,960
Speaker 2: and Biden has absolutely dominated headlines, not just this week

61
00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:39,680
Speaker 2: but for the entire year. But as we know, twenty

62
00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:41,880
Speaker 2: twenty four is shaping up to be a huge year

63
00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:44,640
Speaker 2: of elections, not just in the US but all around

64
00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:47,600
Speaker 2: the globe. As we talk this morning, polls in France

65
00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:51,040
Speaker 2: are still being counted after a snap election there.

66
00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:54,240
Speaker 1: Right, that's right, it's a very crowded field this year.

67
00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:56,360
Speaker 2: It is fighting for attention here.

68
00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:59,880
Speaker 3: Fighting for attention, but the UK is center of attention

69
00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:03,760
Speaker 3: today in the spotlight. We saw some pretty significant results

70
00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:07,000
Speaker 3: come out of their general election last week, and the

71
00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:09,640
Speaker 3: biggest headline is, of course, that Britain has a new

72
00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:13,520
Speaker 3: prime minister, Keirs Starmer, the Labor leader now the Prime Minister.

73
00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:16,920
Speaker 3: And the other massive headline is that the Conservatives, who

74
00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:21,880
Speaker 3: had been in government for fourteen years, suffered a massive defeat.

75
00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:24,840
Speaker 3: And when I say massive, I mean their worst ever.

76
00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:29,320
Speaker 2: Okay, so pretty dramatic scenes there, an ominous sounding voice,

77
00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:31,560
Speaker 2: and I want to take why don't we start with

78
00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:35,120
Speaker 2: that second part with what has happened here with the Conservatives,

79
00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:38,560
Speaker 2: because I think that that's necessary context to then understand

80
00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:42,600
Speaker 2: Labour's win. So tell me a bit about the Conservative

81
00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:45,560
Speaker 2: government that had ruled for so long in the UK.

82
00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:48,720
Speaker 3: So, in short, the Conservatives, who were better known as

83
00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:52,480
Speaker 3: the Tories, have been in power since twenty ten. That's

84
00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:55,599
Speaker 3: when David Cameron became Prime Minister and he went on

85
00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:58,640
Speaker 3: to be re elected for a second term. He was

86
00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:01,440
Speaker 3: seen at the time as this fresh face for the

87
00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:06,360
Speaker 3: Tory party, younger, more dynamic than their previous leaders, so

88
00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:08,880
Speaker 3: he was well liked for a time.

89
00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:12,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was quite a popular leader. So what happened

90
00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:12,840
Speaker 2: from there?

91
00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:16,880
Speaker 3: So the cracks for the Conservative government now the outgoing

92
00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,039
Speaker 3: Conservative government really began to show. At the same time

93
00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:23,360
Speaker 3: that calls for Britain to leave the European Union really

94
00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:26,919
Speaker 3: began gaining momentum. So those calls of course came to

95
00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:31,000
Speaker 3: a head with the Brexit referendum. But David Cameron was

96
00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:35,599
Speaker 3: really strongly against leaving the EU, so when the UK

97
00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:39,400
Speaker 3: voted in favor of Brexit, he ended up standing down

98
00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:40,080
Speaker 3: as PM.

99
00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:42,960
Speaker 1: The British people have made a very clear decision to

100
00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:45,839
Speaker 1: take a different path and as such, I think the

101
00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:49,400
Speaker 1: country requires fresh leadership to take it in this direction.

102
00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:51,520
Speaker 1: Then we had to raise a May.

103
00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:53,400
Speaker 2: What's the naughtiest thing you ever did?

104
00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:55,520
Speaker 3: I have to confess when me and my friends sort

105
00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:57,240
Speaker 3: of used to run through the fields of wheat.

106
00:05:57,440 --> 00:05:58,880
Speaker 1: The farmers weren't too pleased about that.

107
00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:04,240
Speaker 3: So May's biggest challenge as leader was actually implementing Brexit.

108
00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:07,000
Speaker 3: So the UK said we want to leave, the government

109
00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:09,560
Speaker 3: had to figure out how that would be achieved. Theresa

110
00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:13,560
Speaker 3: May then spent a fairly chaotic three years trying to

111
00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:17,680
Speaker 3: negotiate a deal to leave the EU, and ultimately it

112
00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:20,880
Speaker 3: was the resistance that she faced within her own party

113
00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,280
Speaker 3: across the board in Parliament trying to get Brexit over

114
00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:28,720
Speaker 3: the line that saw her resign as leader in twenty nineteen.

115
00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:33,640
Speaker 2: So Brexit was twenty sixteen. That takes us to twenty nineteen,

116
00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:37,479
Speaker 2: and then after Theresa May, we get Boris Johnson right.

117
00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:40,680
Speaker 1: That is right, we sure do. Bojo the man.

118
00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:44,760
Speaker 2: Himself yesterday I went to Pepper Pig World, Pards, He's

119
00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:45,880
Speaker 2: been to Pepper big World.

120
00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:50,880
Speaker 3: So Johnson campaigned on a promise to quote, get Brexit done.

121
00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:53,279
Speaker 3: You probably would have heard lots of news grabs around

122
00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:56,600
Speaker 3: that time. Let's get Brexit done. And within months of

123
00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:58,640
Speaker 3: his prime ministership he followed through.

124
00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:01,400
Speaker 1: The UK did leave the EU.

125
00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,280
Speaker 3: But it wasn't smooth sailing for the Tories from there

126
00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:10,679
Speaker 3: because of course we ran into COVID nineteen and consequently

127
00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:14,520
Speaker 3: another Conservative prime ministership was claimed thanks to a scandal

128
00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:15,800
Speaker 3: known as party Gate.

129
00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:17,440
Speaker 2: Now what is party gate?

130
00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:21,000
Speaker 3: Party Gate was not as fun as it sounds. Boris

131
00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:24,600
Speaker 3: Johnson as Prime Minister was found to have held parties

132
00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:28,160
Speaker 3: with senior ministers at his residence Number ten, Downing Street

133
00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:32,680
Speaker 3: during lockdowns, so the party was in breach of lockdown restrictions.

134
00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:36,800
Speaker 3: It also came at a really high pressure time for

135
00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:40,080
Speaker 3: the British people. It was around Christmas. The UK health

136
00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:42,360
Speaker 3: system was at breaking point. They were in the thick

137
00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:46,080
Speaker 3: of these really high numbers of deaths from COVID nineteen.

138
00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:49,120
Speaker 3: It was not a good look at the time.

139
00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:52,920
Speaker 2: It wasn't And there's very stark, you know, news grabs

140
00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:56,800
Speaker 2: and imagery of Boris Johnson, you know, looking sternly down

141
00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:59,400
Speaker 2: the camera telling people they cannot leave their homes. And

142
00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:02,080
Speaker 2: yet he was hosting these parties, as we now know.

143
00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:05,440
Speaker 2: So just to recap, because we've met a few characters

144
00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:09,360
Speaker 2: so far on this little journey. So we've had David Cameron,

145
00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:12,800
Speaker 2: we've had Theresa May, we've had Boris Johnson, all prime

146
00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:16,160
Speaker 2: ministers from the same party from the Tories. But Rishi

147
00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:19,000
Speaker 2: Sunak wasn't the next one. There was one more prime

148
00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:21,920
Speaker 2: minister in between, another one another one.

149
00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:24,720
Speaker 3: Almost at Sunak on this narrative, but not quite because

150
00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:28,600
Speaker 3: while you'd be forgiven for forgetting there was a Prime

151
00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:30,640
Speaker 3: minister named Liz Truss.

152
00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:32,640
Speaker 2: I am a fighter and not a.

153
00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:38,280
Speaker 3: The shortest serving prime minister in UK history. So Liz

154
00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:42,040
Speaker 3: Truss tried to pass this ambitious plan to cut taxes.

155
00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:46,240
Speaker 3: She didn't provide specifics about how the government would pay

156
00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:49,680
Speaker 3: for those tax cuts, which led to an economic crisis

157
00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:52,959
Speaker 3: in the UK shortly followed by Liz Truss's resignation.

158
00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:56,000
Speaker 2: It was an extremely short time someone had a let

159
00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:59,440
Speaker 2: us there to symbolize her prime ministership, to see which.

160
00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:01,559
Speaker 1: Would wilt quit the live countdown.

161
00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:04,920
Speaker 2: The live countdown, she only lasted forty five days.

162
00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,760
Speaker 3: Forty five days YEAP, during which time the Queen died

163
00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:12,600
Speaker 3: and actually Zara Liz Trust ended up losing her seat

164
00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:15,679
Speaker 3: in this election, so that kind of spells an end

165
00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:19,200
Speaker 3: for her political career, at least for now. She lost

166
00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:23,640
Speaker 3: that seat very narrowly by about six hundred votes to

167
00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:27,560
Speaker 3: a labor candidate, so it'll be interesting to see what

168
00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:28,640
Speaker 3: she does next.

169
00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:33,200
Speaker 2: So a fairly consequential time yeh UK history. But yet

170
00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:36,920
Speaker 2: she resigned, she stepped aside and then came Rishi Sooner.

171
00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:40,080
Speaker 3: Then came Rishi Sunac. So Rishi Sunac forty four year

172
00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:43,960
Speaker 3: old former investment banker. He became the first non white

173
00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:49,760
Speaker 3: British PM, the fifth Conservative PM in that government since twenty.

174
00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:52,720
Speaker 2: Ten, and what was the vibe when he assumed that

175
00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:53,719
Speaker 2: Prime ministership.

176
00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:57,480
Speaker 3: So clearly he inherited a government that, to put it lightly,

177
00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:00,920
Speaker 3: had a fair bit going on. The Twries were hit

178
00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:03,800
Speaker 3: really hard by that party gate scandal. As I mentioned,

179
00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:06,320
Speaker 3: it came at that time when Britain was struggling and

180
00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:10,520
Speaker 3: voters really turned against the government from that point, obviously

181
00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:13,040
Speaker 3: other frustrations in the lead up, a lot of frustration

182
00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:16,880
Speaker 3: around how Brexit was handled. The Tories from that point

183
00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:20,920
Speaker 3: lost almost every opinion poll to Labor from December twenty

184
00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:22,839
Speaker 3: twenty one. So when Johnson was found to have held

185
00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:26,480
Speaker 3: those COVID nineteen lockdown parties, that's the point at which

186
00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:30,720
Speaker 3: Conservative opinion polls really really suffered. The leadership of Liz

187
00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:34,760
Speaker 3: Trust marked another slump in the Tory's popularity. So opinion

188
00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:37,960
Speaker 3: polls showed that Labor was roughly thirty points ahead of

189
00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,720
Speaker 3: the Conservative government in the days before she stepped down.

190
00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:44,720
Speaker 2: And so it's against that backdrop that Rishi Sunac called

191
00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:48,720
Speaker 2: an election earlier this year. What kind of campaign did

192
00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:51,280
Speaker 2: he run given he was operating in this very kind

193
00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:54,920
Speaker 2: of low trust environment. What did that campaign look like.

194
00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:58,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, So it was always going to be an uphill

195
00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:00,120
Speaker 3: battle for Rishi Sunac this election.

196
00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:01,080
Speaker 2: Of the century.

197
00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:06,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, But then came another scandal for the Tories, if

198
00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:07,920
Speaker 3: you can believe it, right in the thick of when

199
00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:10,720
Speaker 3: Sunak would have been hoping to kind of garner a

200
00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:14,120
Speaker 3: bit of goodwill and positive pr for the party, but

201
00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:17,199
Speaker 3: this betting scandal emerged and the fallout from that is

202
00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:20,559
Speaker 3: still ongoing. But the BBC has reported up to fifteen

203
00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:25,000
Speaker 3: Tory candidates are being investigated, along with one Labor candidate,

204
00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:27,920
Speaker 3: and this is all about some unlawful bets that were

205
00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:30,920
Speaker 3: made about the date and the outcome of the election.

206
00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:33,760
Speaker 3: So essentially people who were not meant to be placing

207
00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:37,320
Speaker 3: bets on this kind of information allegedly putting money on

208
00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:39,800
Speaker 3: when they thought the election was going to be called.

209
00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:42,880
Speaker 3: London Police have also confirmed that one of Rishi Sunak's

210
00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:47,040
Speaker 3: bodyguards is also under investigation for being involved in this

211
00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:50,320
Speaker 3: alleged unlawful betting ring. But in terms of what Sunac

212
00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:52,920
Speaker 3: had been spooking if the Tories were re elected his

213
00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:57,199
Speaker 3: campaign promises, he'd promised to cut taxes, boost defence spending,

214
00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:00,600
Speaker 3: cut migration levels, and he also wanted to introduce mandatory

215
00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:04,360
Speaker 3: national service for eighteen year olds finishing school, which garnered

216
00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:07,800
Speaker 3: a few headlines as well, But he ended up spending

217
00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:11,000
Speaker 3: a lot of his campaign just trying to appeal to

218
00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:14,880
Speaker 3: conservative voters by warning them against giving labor too much power.

219
00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:19,160
Speaker 3: He really platformed his campaign on better the devil. You know,

220
00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:22,920
Speaker 3: I suppose or telling voters you can be mad at us,

221
00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:24,960
Speaker 3: but if you give all of the power to labor,

222
00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:26,760
Speaker 3: they'll end up with a supermajority.

223
00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:29,840
Speaker 1: They can pass whatever they want. Don't do that.

224
00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:33,320
Speaker 3: If you hand labor a blank check, you will not

225
00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:35,199
Speaker 3: be able to get it back.

226
00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:38,160
Speaker 2: It's a really interesting position to be in when all

227
00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:40,920
Speaker 2: the signs are pointing to a huge electoral defeat, Like

228
00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:44,199
Speaker 2: how do you campaign in that sort of environment? And

229
00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:48,440
Speaker 2: even Rishie Sunac's announcement of the election, like even that

230
00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:51,120
Speaker 2: he couldn't escape headlines because he did it in the

231
00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:55,920
Speaker 2: pouring rain around us. It really wrote itself. How did

232
00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,160
Speaker 2: voters respond to this sort of campaign?

233
00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:03,720
Speaker 3: So conservative or would be conservative voters didn't really buy it.

234
00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:08,319
Speaker 3: Looking at the election results, you know, Labor is expected

235
00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:11,080
Speaker 3: to win around four hundred and five seats out of

236
00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:12,559
Speaker 3: six hundred and fifty.

237
00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:15,440
Speaker 2: So just give us a sense. That's a huge win.

238
00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:19,679
Speaker 3: That is the biggest majority held by any party since

239
00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:21,280
Speaker 3: World War II in the UK.

240
00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:21,800
Speaker 2: Yeah.

241
00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:25,400
Speaker 3: So meanwhile, the Conservative Party, the Tories are set to

242
00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:30,400
Speaker 3: win around one hundred and forty seats, contrasting Labour's victory.

243
00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:34,000
Speaker 3: That is the Toy's worst ever result like in its

244
00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:35,240
Speaker 3: two hundred year history.

245
00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:39,320
Speaker 2: Okay, so records on both sides there. What about the

246
00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:42,360
Speaker 2: minor parties They've played quite a big role during this campaign.

247
00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:45,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, this has been an interesting one. So the Tories

248
00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:48,600
Speaker 3: weren't just hit hard by that historic swing to Labor.

249
00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:53,199
Speaker 3: There's a minor party on the right that really disrupted

250
00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:56,840
Speaker 3: Rishi Sunac's campaign. It's led by well known Brexit supporter

251
00:13:57,040 --> 00:14:00,760
Speaker 3: Nigel Farage. It's a party called Reform UK. Now, this

252
00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:05,800
Speaker 3: is a populist, anti immigration party and Farage announced plans

253
00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:09,679
Speaker 3: during Sunak's campaign to make a political comeback. He'd gone

254
00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:12,840
Speaker 3: away for a while, but now he's back and Farage

255
00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:16,600
Speaker 3: ultimately has this goal of making Reform UK the real

256
00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:20,240
Speaker 3: opposition in UK politics. I mean he's made a good

257
00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:22,240
Speaker 3: crack of it. It's on track to pick up its

258
00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:25,880
Speaker 3: first ever UK Parliament seats with wins in more than

259
00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:30,120
Speaker 3: a dozen seats, so we're projecting thirteen reform UK seats

260
00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:31,240
Speaker 3: in Parliament, and.

261
00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:34,680
Speaker 2: So when that's splitting the right wing vote, that's another

262
00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:37,840
Speaker 2: challenge for the Tories to try and overcome. So I'm

263
00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:40,200
Speaker 2: not sure Rishi Sunak and his party would have been

264
00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:43,040
Speaker 2: too stoked about that. But I want to move on

265
00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:45,840
Speaker 2: now to the new government and the new prime minister.

266
00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:49,200
Speaker 2: I think most people in Australia would struggle to pick

267
00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:52,320
Speaker 2: Sirkistarma even out of a liner. Yeah, he's a fairly

268
00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:56,640
Speaker 2: unknown name outside of the UK, So tell me what

269
00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:59,440
Speaker 2: we need to know about him and his new government.

270
00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:03,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's interesting. Kirs Starmer is not the eccentric

271
00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:05,920
Speaker 3: kind of leader that we've seen from some of the

272
00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:09,880
Speaker 3: conservative pms of recent times, like you're Boris Johnson's. He's

273
00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:13,920
Speaker 3: not a particularly stand out character, you could argue, but

274
00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:16,160
Speaker 3: that actually might be the key to his success. And

275
00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:19,040
Speaker 3: I think, you know, after so many turbulent years in

276
00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:22,440
Speaker 3: UK politics, that may have appealed to a lot of voters.

277
00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:25,960
Speaker 3: So Starmer is a lawyer and a former chief Public

278
00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:30,080
Speaker 3: prosecutor and yes, a sir. He was knighted for services

279
00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:33,240
Speaker 3: to Law in twenty fourteen. He's been a Labor MP

280
00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:37,160
Speaker 3: since twenty fifteen, so quite a decent chunk. But he's

281
00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:39,920
Speaker 3: fresh enough to kind of be seen as someone young

282
00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:43,240
Speaker 3: enough or interesting enough to bring something different to the party.

283
00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:43,880
Speaker 1: Possibly.

284
00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:48,000
Speaker 3: He took over leadership of the Labor Party in twenty nineteen.

285
00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:50,760
Speaker 3: That was when there was the last UK election when

286
00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:54,000
Speaker 3: Labour suffered one of its worst ever defeats.

287
00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:57,560
Speaker 1: Under Jeremy Corbyn. So former opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn.

288
00:15:57,440 --> 00:15:59,720
Speaker 2: And what do we know about his policies? What did

289
00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:00,800
Speaker 2: he do to the election?

290
00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:04,000
Speaker 3: So in the lead up to this election, Starma really

291
00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:07,520
Speaker 3: lent on his record of change within Labor. So since

292
00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:10,840
Speaker 3: taking over from Corbyn, he really lent on that. He

293
00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:15,080
Speaker 3: has turned Labor into a more centrist political party compared

294
00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:19,440
Speaker 3: to Corbyn's more left wing policies. Starma has pledged to

295
00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:23,960
Speaker 3: do things like cut hospital waiting times, create new border security,

296
00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:28,120
Speaker 3: hire six five hundred more teachers, and he wants to

297
00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:31,840
Speaker 3: set up a nationally owned UK energy company. This has

298
00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:35,040
Speaker 3: all been under the banner of change. The word change

299
00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:38,640
Speaker 3: has featured prominently throughout his campaign and I think that

300
00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:41,120
Speaker 3: messaging goes to the heart of the fact that he

301
00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:44,440
Speaker 3: wanted voters to feel that he was the right man

302
00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:47,680
Speaker 3: for the job, whether or not they are traditionally labor voters.

303
00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:50,080
Speaker 3: I think that he saw an opportunity to kind of

304
00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:53,840
Speaker 3: present himself as the positive change that the UK needed.

305
00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:56,200
Speaker 1: And here's a little bit of his victory speech.

306
00:16:56,640 --> 00:17:01,080
Speaker 2: The change begins right here because this is your democracy,

307
00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:05,239
Speaker 2: your community and your future. You have voted. It is

308
00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:09,280
Speaker 2: now time for us to deliver. And obviously Rishi Sunac

309
00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:12,440
Speaker 2: had to concede defeat. What did we hear from him

310
00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:13,240
Speaker 2: on election night?

311
00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:16,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, so in a short speech on Friday morning. This

312
00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:19,640
Speaker 3: was I think about five am local time, the day

313
00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:23,400
Speaker 3: after the election, so a huge day for everyone involved.

314
00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:26,919
Speaker 3: He confirmed Labour's victory. He said he had offered his

315
00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:31,359
Speaker 3: congratulations to Starmer over the phone. He took responsibility for

316
00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:33,800
Speaker 3: the loss, but I do want to mention that he

317
00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:36,840
Speaker 3: retained his seat. So Richie Sunac no longer Prime Minister,

318
00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:40,400
Speaker 3: but he's not disappearing from Parliament altogether. He will continue

319
00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:43,080
Speaker 3: on as a Conservative MP for at least another term.

320
00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:45,800
Speaker 3: He said he was looking forward to working with his community,

321
00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:48,840
Speaker 3: spending more time with family. He is a little bit

322
00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:49,800
Speaker 3: more of that speech.

323
00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:53,119
Speaker 2: Today, power will change hands in a peaceful and orderly manner,

324
00:17:53,359 --> 00:17:55,000
Speaker 2: with goodwill on all sides.

325
00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:57,560
Speaker 1: That is something that should give us all confidence in

326
00:17:57,600 --> 00:17:59,600
Speaker 1: our country's stability and future.

327
00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,640
Speaker 3: He soon I ended up submitting his resignation in person

328
00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:06,919
Speaker 3: to King Charles the Third on Friday, and just a

329
00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:10,920
Speaker 3: few hours later, Keir Starmer was officially sworn in as

330
00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:13,640
Speaker 3: Prime Minister. Now for the other members of the House

331
00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:16,640
Speaker 3: of Commons, the lower house, they will be sworn in

332
00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:20,119
Speaker 3: on the ninth of July, before the first official session

333
00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:22,720
Speaker 3: of Parliament begins with a speech by the King on

334
00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:24,280
Speaker 3: the seventeenth of July.

335
00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:27,679
Speaker 2: And thank you so much for explaining all that is

336
00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:31,040
Speaker 2: the UK politics circus to all of us here today,

337
00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:34,199
Speaker 2: and thank you for listening to the Daily Os for

338
00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:37,000
Speaker 2: another day. If you like what you heard, we would

339
00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:39,160
Speaker 2: love it if you could leave a review on Apple

340
00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:43,080
Speaker 2: Podcasts or rate us on Spotify. It's the way we

341
00:18:43,119 --> 00:18:44,960
Speaker 2: know that you're listening and that we know that you're

342
00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,359
Speaker 2: liking what we are putting out. So thanks in advance

343
00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:52,240
Speaker 2: and we'll be back again tomorrow. My name is Lily

344
00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:55,720
Speaker 2: Madden and I'm a proud Arunda Bungelung Cargottin woman from

345
00:18:55,720 --> 00:19:00,520
Speaker 2: Gadigal country. The Daily os acknowledges that this podcast recorded

346
00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:03,000
Speaker 2: on the lands of the Gadigal people and pays respect

347
00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:06,239
Speaker 2: to all Aboriginal and torrest rate island and nations. We

348
00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:09,080
Speaker 2: pay our respects to the first peoples of these countries,

349
00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:10,359
Speaker 2: both past and present.