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Cleo Watson and Helen MacNamara

In The Room | Inside Downing Street when war breaks out

Sir Keir Starmer United States

After a crushing by-election defeat last week, Keir Starmer might have been hoping for a quiet week to recalibrate. Instead, he got a new war.

In this episode, former special advisor Cleo Watson and ex-deputy cabinet secretary Helen MacNamara reveal the reality of Number 10 on a war footing. How best to navigate the ‘Special Relationship’ with the US? What’s it like inside COBR meetings, where the ‘boys club’ mentality is primed to take over? And how the hell do you keep the country running during all of it?

New episodes of In The Room drop every Friday. You can listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or watch on YouTube.

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