{"id":49228,"date":"2026-06-24T13:07:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/49228\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T13:07:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:07:05","slug":"could-this-former-royal-marine-become-britains-next-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/49228\/","title":{"rendered":"Could this former royal marine become Britain&#8217;s NEXT PRIME MINISTER?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Could this former royal marine become Britain&#039;s NEXT PRIME MINISTER?\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EAeG1hhgWkI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nCould this former royal marine become Britain&#8217;s NEXT PRIME MINISTER?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIs Westminster broken? And can a former soldier bring a new way of thinking into British politics? Labour MP Al Carns argues that Britain needs a clearer long-term plan, saying governments often lose focus once they enter office and become absorbed by the system around them.<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>Krishnan Guru-Murthy speaks to Labour MP and former Royal Marines officer Al Carns about defence spending, national resilience, migration, welfare reform and why he believes politics needs a different approach to delivering change.<\/p>\n<p>Could a more strategic, military-style approach help fix Britain\u2019s political problems &#8211; or is governing more complicated than that?<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Could this former royal marine become Britain&#8217;s NEXT PRIME MINISTER? Is Westminster broken? And can a former soldier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[11],"tags":[11618,331,366,352,365,7022,3825,45636,6576,354,263,19489,18554,22668,1295,353,45637,3833,3827,23236,45638,34344,30169,5641,4925,2601,341,267,35057,4751,45639],"class_list":["post-49228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-channel-4-news","tag-al-carns","tag-british-politics","tag-channel-4","tag-channel-4-news","tag-channel4","tag-defence-spending","tag-foreign-policy","tag-government-reform","tag-immigration-debate","tag-international-news","tag-keir-starmer","tag-krishnan-guru-murthy","tag-labour-government","tag-labour-mp","tag-labour-party","tag-latest-news","tag-military-mindset","tag-national-security","tag-political-analysis","tag-political-reform","tag-politics-interview","tag-public-services","tag-royal-marines","tag-the-fourcast","tag-uk-defence","tag-uk-economy","tag-uk-news","tag-uk-politics","tag-welfare-reform","tag-westminster","tag-westminster-reform"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}