# Starmer faces growing pressure after Local election losses, Trump rejects latest Iranian peace proposal, Arsenal win at West Ham to close in on Premier League title Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-smart-7-1227360/starmer-faces-growing-pressure-after-local-election-losses-trump-rejects-latest-iranian-peace-proposal-arsenal-win-at-west-ham-to-close-in-on-premier-league-title Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-smart-7-1227360/starmer-faces-growing-pressure-after-local-election-losses-trump-rejects-latest-iranian-peace-proposal-arsenal-win-at-west-ham-to-close-in-on-premier-league-title.md Podcast: [The Smart 7](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-smart-7-1227360) Published: 2026-05-11T05:15:35+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/thesmart7/episodes/starmer-faces-growing-pressure-after-local-election-losses-t Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/thesmart7/e/6a0165f82b71c054a36a2271/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-smart-7-1227360/episodes/starmer-faces-growing-pressure-after-local-election-losses-trump-rejects-latest-iranian-peace-proposal-arsenal-win-at-west-ham-to-close-in-on-premier-league-title Duration seconds: 445 ## Resource The Smart 7 is an award winning daily podcast, in association with METRO, that gives you everything you need to know in 7 minutes, at 7am, 7 days a week… With over 20 million downloads and consistently charting, including as No. 1 News Podcast on Spotify, we're a trusted source for people every day and we’ve won Gold at the Signal International Podcast awards If you're enjoying it, please follow, share, or even post a review, it all helps...  Today's episode includes the following: https://x.com/i/status/2053414081885806935 https://x.com/i/status/2053442900214579712   https://x.com/i/status/2053419923657884069 https://x.com/i/status/2053393566311784827   https://x.com/i/status/2053435322961215702    https://x.com/i/status/2053495068980326606 https://x.com/i/status/2053547243056062574   https://x.com/i/status/2053563908288631214   https://youtu.be/k-358jALXlA    Contact us over @TheSmart7pod or visit www.thesmart7.com   or find out more at www.metro.co.uk   Voiced by Jamie East, using AI, written by Liam Thompson , researched by Lucie Lewis and produced by Daft Doris . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-smart-7-1227360/episodes/starmer-faces-growing-pressure-after-local-election-losses-trump-rejects-latest-iranian-peace-proposal-arsenal-win-at-west-ham-to-close-in-on-premier-league-title/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-smart-7-1227360/starmer-faces-growing-pressure-after-local-election-losses-trump-rejects-latest-iranian-peace-proposal-arsenal-win-at-west-ham-to-close-in-on-premier-league-title.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.