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Alistair Campbell

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The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

Somebody pointed out to him that since he'd become prime minister, he'd spent 60% of his time traveling.

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

Okay.

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

Now here we have never hear care, right?

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

That's what they call it.

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

Mark Carney was challenged about that.

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

And he said, you know what?

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

I should probably be traveling even more because this is where leadership lies now.

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

This is where countries have to engage with each other.

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

And Keir should do the same.

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

This foreign policy stuff matters more than it's ever done because of the United States.

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

behaving the way that it's done.

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

That's what I was saying.

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

I think that if you put all these countries together, if Mark Carney wants to take what he said in Davos to the next level, it requires him, I think, to get three or four of the others to agree with his analysis and to agree with his conclusion.

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

And then to say, so for example, one of the other big moments in Davos was Donald Trump launching his Board of Peace campaign.

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

And if you look at it, it was basically Trump plus quite a lot of stans and quite a lot of people with very, very profound oligarchical tendencies.

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

OK, you didn't see many of the big democracies.

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

Well, this is a very interesting point.

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

I had an exchange with Eddie about that, and he said, we are not France or Canada, he said.

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

So they're a small power, okay?

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

You've got big powers, two.