Interview · 4 Jul 2026
BBC News interview with Henry Zeffman: the decision to step down
Video: YouTube: BBC News (official channel). Retrieved 7 Oct 2026.
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168 sentences · 18 checked claims · 21 questions
- Official title
- Keir Starmer reveals moment he decided to step down | BBC News - YouTube
- Speaker
- Keir Starmer (Prime Minister)
- Date delivered
- 4 Jul 2026
- Where
- Publisher
- YouTube: BBC News (official channel)
- Page
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2OOFJJ5L6g
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-07T10:24:00+00:00
- SHA-256 of raw file
- 078514c70d8828be5f3f8df2477b59356fd8c47f91843017cb2c1a8a438bcf79
- 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 his first interview after announcing he would step down, recorded in Downing Street (21 minutes); a straight interview with nothing cut. The interviewer is named in the video description, not in the captions.
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