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Speaker 2: Good morning and welcome to the Daily OS. It's Monday,
Speaker 2: the eighth of July.
Speaker 1: I'm zara, i'm emma.
Speaker 2: Fourteen years of Conservative government in the UK has come
Speaker 2: to an end.
Speaker 3: And as Big Band strikes tenth, the exit poll is
Speaker 3: protecting a Labor landslide. Labor will form government in the
Speaker 3: UK after an election result that's been described as a
Speaker 3: landslide victory.
Speaker 1: It comes after one of the most tumultuous periods in
Speaker 1: recent British history.
Speaker 3: We're talking about an era that saw five Conservative prime ministers,
Speaker 3: Britain's departure from the European Union, a global pandemic and
Speaker 3: the death of Queen Elizabeth, among other things. We will
Speaker 3: take you through the results and tell you everything you
Speaker 3: need to know about Britain's new Prime Minister, Kirs Starmer
Speaker 3: in today's deep dive at First Zara.
Speaker 1: What's making headlines.
Speaker 2: Three children have died in a house fire in Sydney's
Speaker 2: West that is now being treated as a domestic related
Speaker 2: multiple homicide. A twenty eight year old man has been
Speaker 2: arrested after police say quote direct actions were taken that
Speaker 2: were intentional of keeping police, other first responders and neighbors
Speaker 2: out of the property while it was on fire. The
Speaker 2: three children were aged between ten months and four years old.
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Speaker 1: Community based preschool staff in New South Wales have launched
Speaker 1: fair Work action amid calls for a twenty five percent
Speaker 1: pay rise. The Independent Education Union says experienced preschool teachers
Speaker 1: in the state earn around ninety thousand dollars a year,
Speaker 1: compared to experienced teachers in public schools, who earn around
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty two thousand dollars. The union filed
Speaker 1: an application for an early educator pay rise with the
Speaker 1: Fair Work Commission last week. Its New South Wales branch
Speaker 1: secretary is urging the state government to quote step up
Speaker 1: and address the staff shortages caused by inadequate pay.
Speaker 2: Mustard Possession has been elected as Iran's next president. It
Speaker 2: comes after the country's previous president was killed in a
Speaker 2: helicopter crash earlier this year. After winning, Possession, who is
Speaker 2: described as a centrist politician in the country and was
Speaker 2: previously a heart surgeon, said and I quote, I am
Speaker 2: the servant of the people of Iran. We will serve you,
Speaker 2: dear people of our country.
Speaker 1: And today's good news.
Speaker 3: A clinical trial in South Africa and Uganda has proven
Speaker 3: to be one hundred percent effective in preventing HIV in women.
Speaker 3: A new pre exposure drug was administered twice in one
Speaker 3: year to a group of five thousand women. Women are
Speaker 3: disproportionately affected by HIV in Sub Saharan Africa, according to
Speaker 3: the United Nations. Researchers say they hope the treatment will
Speaker 3: address the stigma and discrimination that's prevented the uptake of
Speaker 3: preventative medication in some communities. The injection was also shown
Speaker 3: to be more effective than daily HIV prevention pills.
Speaker 2: So m. The US election and the showdown between Trump
Speaker 2: and Biden has absolutely dominated headlines, not just this week
Speaker 2: but for the entire year. But as we know, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four is shaping up to be a huge year
Speaker 2: of elections, not just in the US but all around
Speaker 2: the globe. As we talk this morning, polls in France
Speaker 2: are still being counted after a snap election there.
Speaker 1: Right, that's right, it's a very crowded field this year.
Speaker 2: It is fighting for attention here.
Speaker 3: Fighting for attention, but the UK is center of attention
Speaker 3: today in the spotlight. We saw some pretty significant results
Speaker 3: come out of their general election last week, and the
Speaker 3: biggest headline is, of course, that Britain has a new
Speaker 3: prime minister, Keirs Starmer, the Labor leader now the Prime Minister.
Speaker 3: And the other massive headline is that the Conservatives, who
Speaker 3: had been in government for fourteen years, suffered a massive defeat.
Speaker 3: And when I say massive, I mean their worst ever.
Speaker 2: Okay, so pretty dramatic scenes there, an ominous sounding voice,
Speaker 2: and I want to take why don't we start with
Speaker 2: that second part with what has happened here with the Conservatives,
Speaker 2: because I think that that's necessary context to then understand
Speaker 2: Labour's win. So tell me a bit about the Conservative
Speaker 2: government that had ruled for so long in the UK.
Speaker 3: So, in short, the Conservatives, who were better known as
Speaker 3: the Tories, have been in power since twenty ten. That's
Speaker 3: when David Cameron became Prime Minister and he went on
Speaker 3: to be re elected for a second term. He was
Speaker 3: seen at the time as this fresh face for the
Speaker 3: Tory party, younger, more dynamic than their previous leaders, so
Speaker 3: he was well liked for a time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was quite a popular leader. So what happened
Speaker 2: from there?
Speaker 3: So the cracks for the Conservative government now the outgoing
Speaker 3: Conservative government really began to show. At the same time
Speaker 3: that calls for Britain to leave the European Union really
Speaker 3: began gaining momentum. So those calls of course came to
Speaker 3: a head with the Brexit referendum. But David Cameron was
Speaker 3: really strongly against leaving the EU, so when the UK
Speaker 3: voted in favor of Brexit, he ended up standing down
Speaker 3: as PM.
Speaker 1: The British people have made a very clear decision to
Speaker 1: take a different path and as such, I think the
Speaker 1: country requires fresh leadership to take it in this direction.
Speaker 1: Then we had to raise a May.
Speaker 2: What's the naughtiest thing you ever did?
Speaker 3: I have to confess when me and my friends sort
Speaker 3: of used to run through the fields of wheat.
Speaker 1: The farmers weren't too pleased about that.
Speaker 3: So May's biggest challenge as leader was actually implementing Brexit.
Speaker 3: So the UK said we want to leave, the government
Speaker 3: had to figure out how that would be achieved. Theresa
Speaker 3: May then spent a fairly chaotic three years trying to
Speaker 3: negotiate a deal to leave the EU, and ultimately it
Speaker 3: was the resistance that she faced within her own party
Speaker 3: across the board in Parliament trying to get Brexit over
Speaker 3: the line that saw her resign as leader in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: So Brexit was twenty sixteen. That takes us to twenty nineteen,
Speaker 2: and then after Theresa May, we get Boris Johnson right.
Speaker 1: That is right, we sure do. Bojo the man.
Speaker 2: Himself yesterday I went to Pepper Pig World, Pards, He's
Speaker 2: been to Pepper big World.
Speaker 3: So Johnson campaigned on a promise to quote, get Brexit done.
Speaker 3: You probably would have heard lots of news grabs around
Speaker 3: that time. Let's get Brexit done. And within months of
Speaker 3: his prime ministership he followed through.
Speaker 1: The UK did leave the EU.
Speaker 3: But it wasn't smooth sailing for the Tories from there
Speaker 3: because of course we ran into COVID nineteen and consequently
Speaker 3: another Conservative prime ministership was claimed thanks to a scandal
Speaker 3: known as party Gate.
Speaker 2: Now what is party gate?
Speaker 3: Party Gate was not as fun as it sounds. Boris
Speaker 3: Johnson as Prime Minister was found to have held parties
Speaker 3: with senior ministers at his residence Number ten, Downing Street
Speaker 3: during lockdowns, so the party was in breach of lockdown restrictions.
Speaker 3: It also came at a really high pressure time for
Speaker 3: the British people. It was around Christmas. The UK health
Speaker 3: system was at breaking point. They were in the thick
Speaker 3: of these really high numbers of deaths from COVID nineteen.
Speaker 3: It was not a good look at the time.
Speaker 2: It wasn't And there's very stark, you know, news grabs
Speaker 2: and imagery of Boris Johnson, you know, looking sternly down
Speaker 2: the camera telling people they cannot leave their homes. And
Speaker 2: yet he was hosting these parties, as we now know.
Speaker 2: So just to recap, because we've met a few characters
Speaker 2: so far on this little journey. So we've had David Cameron,
Speaker 2: we've had Theresa May, we've had Boris Johnson, all prime
Speaker 2: ministers from the same party from the Tories. But Rishi
Speaker 2: Sunak wasn't the next one. There was one more prime
Speaker 2: minister in between, another one another one.
Speaker 3: Almost at Sunak on this narrative, but not quite because
Speaker 3: while you'd be forgiven for forgetting there was a Prime
Speaker 3: minister named Liz Truss.
Speaker 2: I am a fighter and not a.
Speaker 3: The shortest serving prime minister in UK history. So Liz
Speaker 3: Truss tried to pass this ambitious plan to cut taxes.
Speaker 3: She didn't provide specifics about how the government would pay
Speaker 3: for those tax cuts, which led to an economic crisis
Speaker 3: in the UK shortly followed by Liz Truss's resignation.
Speaker 2: It was an extremely short time someone had a let
Speaker 2: us there to symbolize her prime ministership, to see which.
Speaker 1: Would wilt quit the live countdown.
Speaker 2: The live countdown, she only lasted forty five days.
Speaker 3: Forty five days YEAP, during which time the Queen died
Speaker 3: and actually Zara Liz Trust ended up losing her seat
Speaker 3: in this election, so that kind of spells an end
Speaker 3: for her political career, at least for now. She lost
Speaker 3: that seat very narrowly by about six hundred votes to
Speaker 3: a labor candidate, so it'll be interesting to see what
Speaker 3: she does next.
Speaker 2: So a fairly consequential time yeh UK history. But yet
Speaker 2: she resigned, she stepped aside and then came Rishi Sooner.
Speaker 3: Then came Rishi Sunac. So Rishi Sunac forty four year
Speaker 3: old former investment banker. He became the first non white
Speaker 3: British PM, the fifth Conservative PM in that government since twenty.
Speaker 2: Ten, and what was the vibe when he assumed that
Speaker 2: Prime ministership.
Speaker 3: So clearly he inherited a government that, to put it lightly,
Speaker 3: had a fair bit going on. The Twries were hit
Speaker 3: really hard by that party gate scandal. As I mentioned,
Speaker 3: it came at that time when Britain was struggling and
Speaker 3: voters really turned against the government from that point, obviously
Speaker 3: other frustrations in the lead up, a lot of frustration
Speaker 3: around how Brexit was handled. The Tories from that point
Speaker 3: lost almost every opinion poll to Labor from December twenty
Speaker 3: twenty one. So when Johnson was found to have held
Speaker 3: those COVID nineteen lockdown parties, that's the point at which
Speaker 3: Conservative opinion polls really really suffered. The leadership of Liz
Speaker 3: Trust marked another slump in the Tory's popularity. So opinion
Speaker 3: polls showed that Labor was roughly thirty points ahead of
Speaker 3: the Conservative government in the days before she stepped down.
Speaker 2: And so it's against that backdrop that Rishi Sunac called
Speaker 2: an election earlier this year. What kind of campaign did
Speaker 2: he run given he was operating in this very kind
Speaker 2: of low trust environment. What did that campaign look like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So it was always going to be an uphill
Speaker 3: battle for Rishi Sunac this election.
Speaker 2: Of the century.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But then came another scandal for the Tories, if
Speaker 3: you can believe it, right in the thick of when
Speaker 3: Sunak would have been hoping to kind of garner a
Speaker 3: bit of goodwill and positive pr for the party, but
Speaker 3: this betting scandal emerged and the fallout from that is
Speaker 3: still ongoing. But the BBC has reported up to fifteen
Speaker 3: Tory candidates are being investigated, along with one Labor candidate,
Speaker 3: and this is all about some unlawful bets that were
Speaker 3: made about the date and the outcome of the election.
Speaker 3: So essentially people who were not meant to be placing
Speaker 3: bets on this kind of information allegedly putting money on
Speaker 3: when they thought the election was going to be called.
Speaker 3: London Police have also confirmed that one of Rishi Sunak's
Speaker 3: bodyguards is also under investigation for being involved in this
Speaker 3: alleged unlawful betting ring. But in terms of what Sunac
Speaker 3: had been spooking if the Tories were re elected his
Speaker 3: campaign promises, he'd promised to cut taxes, boost defence spending,
Speaker 3: cut migration levels, and he also wanted to introduce mandatory
Speaker 3: national service for eighteen year olds finishing school, which garnered
Speaker 3: a few headlines as well, But he ended up spending
Speaker 3: a lot of his campaign just trying to appeal to
Speaker 3: conservative voters by warning them against giving labor too much power.
Speaker 3: He really platformed his campaign on better the devil. You know,
Speaker 3: I suppose or telling voters you can be mad at us,
Speaker 3: but if you give all of the power to labor,
Speaker 3: they'll end up with a supermajority.
Speaker 1: They can pass whatever they want. Don't do that.
Speaker 3: If you hand labor a blank check, you will not
Speaker 3: be able to get it back.
Speaker 2: It's a really interesting position to be in when all
Speaker 2: the signs are pointing to a huge electoral defeat, Like
Speaker 2: how do you campaign in that sort of environment? And
Speaker 2: even Rishie Sunac's announcement of the election, like even that
Speaker 2: he couldn't escape headlines because he did it in the
Speaker 2: pouring rain around us. It really wrote itself. How did
Speaker 2: voters respond to this sort of campaign?
Speaker 3: So conservative or would be conservative voters didn't really buy it.
Speaker 3: Looking at the election results, you know, Labor is expected
Speaker 3: to win around four hundred and five seats out of
Speaker 3: six hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2: So just give us a sense. That's a huge win.
Speaker 3: That is the biggest majority held by any party since
Speaker 3: World War II in the UK.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So meanwhile, the Conservative Party, the Tories are set to
Speaker 3: win around one hundred and forty seats, contrasting Labour's victory.
Speaker 3: That is the Toy's worst ever result like in its
Speaker 3: two hundred year history.
Speaker 2: Okay, so records on both sides there. What about the
Speaker 2: minor parties They've played quite a big role during this campaign.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this has been an interesting one. So the Tories
Speaker 3: weren't just hit hard by that historic swing to Labor.
Speaker 3: There's a minor party on the right that really disrupted
Speaker 3: Rishi Sunac's campaign. It's led by well known Brexit supporter
Speaker 3: Nigel Farage. It's a party called Reform UK. Now, this
Speaker 3: is a populist, anti immigration party and Farage announced plans
Speaker 3: during Sunak's campaign to make a political comeback. He'd gone
Speaker 3: away for a while, but now he's back and Farage
Speaker 3: ultimately has this goal of making Reform UK the real
Speaker 3: opposition in UK politics. I mean he's made a good
Speaker 3: crack of it. It's on track to pick up its
Speaker 3: first ever UK Parliament seats with wins in more than
Speaker 3: a dozen seats, so we're projecting thirteen reform UK seats
Speaker 3: in Parliament, and.
Speaker 2: So when that's splitting the right wing vote, that's another
Speaker 2: challenge for the Tories to try and overcome. So I'm
Speaker 2: not sure Rishi Sunak and his party would have been
Speaker 2: too stoked about that. But I want to move on
Speaker 2: now to the new government and the new prime minister.
Speaker 2: I think most people in Australia would struggle to pick
Speaker 2: Sirkistarma even out of a liner. Yeah, he's a fairly
Speaker 2: unknown name outside of the UK, So tell me what
Speaker 2: we need to know about him and his new government.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's interesting. Kirs Starmer is not the eccentric
Speaker 3: kind of leader that we've seen from some of the
Speaker 3: conservative pms of recent times, like you're Boris Johnson's. He's
Speaker 3: not a particularly stand out character, you could argue, but
Speaker 3: that actually might be the key to his success. And
Speaker 3: I think, you know, after so many turbulent years in
Speaker 3: UK politics, that may have appealed to a lot of voters.
Speaker 3: So Starmer is a lawyer and a former chief Public
Speaker 3: prosecutor and yes, a sir. He was knighted for services
Speaker 3: to Law in twenty fourteen. He's been a Labor MP
Speaker 3: since twenty fifteen, so quite a decent chunk. But he's
Speaker 3: fresh enough to kind of be seen as someone young
Speaker 3: enough or interesting enough to bring something different to the party.
Speaker 1: Possibly.
Speaker 3: He took over leadership of the Labor Party in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3: That was when there was the last UK election when
Speaker 3: Labour suffered one of its worst ever defeats.
Speaker 1: Under Jeremy Corbyn. So former opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Speaker 2: And what do we know about his policies? What did
Speaker 2: he do to the election?
Speaker 3: So in the lead up to this election, Starma really
Speaker 3: lent on his record of change within Labor. So since
Speaker 3: taking over from Corbyn, he really lent on that. He
Speaker 3: has turned Labor into a more centrist political party compared
Speaker 3: to Corbyn's more left wing policies. Starma has pledged to
Speaker 3: do things like cut hospital waiting times, create new border security,
Speaker 3: hire six five hundred more teachers, and he wants to
Speaker 3: set up a nationally owned UK energy company. This has
Speaker 3: all been under the banner of change. The word change
Speaker 3: has featured prominently throughout his campaign and I think that
Speaker 3: messaging goes to the heart of the fact that he
Speaker 3: wanted voters to feel that he was the right man
Speaker 3: for the job, whether or not they are traditionally labor voters.
Speaker 3: I think that he saw an opportunity to kind of
Speaker 3: present himself as the positive change that the UK needed.
Speaker 1: And here's a little bit of his victory speech.
Speaker 2: The change begins right here because this is your democracy,
Speaker 2: your community and your future. You have voted. It is
Speaker 2: now time for us to deliver. And obviously Rishi Sunac
Speaker 2: had to concede defeat. What did we hear from him
Speaker 2: on election night?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so in a short speech on Friday morning. This
Speaker 3: was I think about five am local time, the day
Speaker 3: after the election, so a huge day for everyone involved.
Speaker 3: He confirmed Labour's victory. He said he had offered his
Speaker 3: congratulations to Starmer over the phone. He took responsibility for
Speaker 3: the loss, but I do want to mention that he
Speaker 3: retained his seat. So Richie Sunac no longer Prime Minister,
Speaker 3: but he's not disappearing from Parliament altogether. He will continue
Speaker 3: on as a Conservative MP for at least another term.
Speaker 3: He said he was looking forward to working with his community,
Speaker 3: spending more time with family. He is a little bit
Speaker 3: more of that speech.
Speaker 2: Today, power will change hands in a peaceful and orderly manner,
Speaker 2: with goodwill on all sides.
Speaker 1: That is something that should give us all confidence in
Speaker 1: our country's stability and future.
Speaker 3: He soon I ended up submitting his resignation in person
Speaker 3: to King Charles the Third on Friday, and just a
Speaker 3: few hours later, Keir Starmer was officially sworn in as
Speaker 3: Prime Minister. Now for the other members of the House
Speaker 3: of Commons, the lower house, they will be sworn in
Speaker 3: on the ninth of July, before the first official session
Speaker 3: of Parliament begins with a speech by the King on
Speaker 3: the seventeenth of July.
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