Alex Forsyth

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2,054 appearances 20 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 2d ago

Alex Forsyth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Newscast · Keir Starmer Says Goodbye · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

And the whole tone of it was not really like a normal PMQs in any way, shape or form. voice-verified

It was all very friendly, I suppose. voice-verified

And it's also just worth saying on that point, after PMQs, and it happened this week as it normally does, you have like what's called a little huddle with the prime minister's political team who try and impart a bit more information to journalists about whatever the government's up to. voice-verified

And there was a question in that huddle when the spokesperson for Keir Starmer was asked, you know, any plans for what Keir Starmer is going to do next? voice-verified

And they actually pointed to what he said in recent days when he's met campaigners against injustice. voice-verified

And he has said to those campaigners that he's going to continue fighting for them effectively from the back benches, which is where he'll now be. voice-verified

And it was interesting that his kind of political team pointed to that, not as a kind of definitive. voice-verified

And, you know, we don't know what Keir Starmer is going to get up to next, but clearly as one of his priorities. voice-verified

is going to be, I think, to continue championing the causes of those people. voice-verified

So, yes, the Hillsborough families, but also people who've campaigned against violence against women and girls or knife crime or domestic violence. voice-verified

And those issues, it seems to be that he's going to attempt to keep them quite high up his own personal priority list when he departs Downing Street. voice-verified

And it's remarkable just in terms of that warm valedictory point. voice-verified

It's remarkable, and this is true of many prime ministers, how quickly the mood shifts when a prime minister is outgoing. voice-verified

If you just think where we were really just a matter of weeks ago before Keir Starmer announced his resignation and the mood in the Labour Party at that point was fraught and it was angry and it was frustrated and it was spilling out in public. voice-verified

And some of the MPs who were sat on the back benches today to be there to support Keir Starmer were the very ones that were calling for him to go. voice-verified

And then almost as soon as he announced he was going to step down, the whole mood in the Labour Party shifted. voice-verified

And they've been sort of attempting to present this very united front around Andy Burnham. voice-verified

And I think you just saw that really today kind of solidified in the way that the tone and the feel that was coming from the Labour benches in that almost as soon as Keir Starmer said that he wasn't going to kind of stay and fight or try and challenge any successor, voice-verified

that he was going to do this kind of exit, the whole mood in the parliamentary party towards him shifted. voice-verified

And it was on full display today. voice-verified

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