Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg New Year interview: unpopularity, the EU, asylum hotels, Ukraine and Venezuela

Official title

Keir Starmer tells BBC he'll still be UK prime minister in 2027 | BBC News - YouTube

Speaker

Keir Starmer (Prime Minister)

Date delivered

4 Jan 2026

Where

Publisher

YouTube: BBC News (official channel)

Page

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHU7GRwps3o

Retrieved

2026-10-07T10:23:45+00:00

SHA-256 of raw file

de0d2b60fe85d071fafcc798c131bf5242edb5c82ca3eedb38e69c498ff039d3

Licence

Standard YouTube licence; transcript from captions, quoted for review

Note on record

Transcript from the video's captions, fetched on 2026-10-07; not an official record. Captions do not say who is speaking: Polifiles assigned each turn by reading the captions, without checking the audio. BBC News' upload of the extended interview recorded in Downing Street for Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (about 23 minutes), from the first question to his last answer; the presenter's introduction and closing thanks are left out. The captions run the two voices together in places, so short fragments are assigned by meaning, not by the '>>' marks (for example "And if this long form interview works" and "No, I know." are given to Laura Kuenssberg; "a very important one" and "Yeah." stay inside her question). A question about when asylum hotels will close is not in the captions; his answer to it is kept. Trimmed: starts at "Prime Minister, 2026 could transform"; ends at "I wouldn't swap a single day uh of being in power for a decade of being in opposition.".

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