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2025, Volume 7
Keir Starmer’s Framing of Climate Change: a Qualitative Investigation of Political Speeches
Oleksandr Kapranov, Assoc. Prof., PhD, NLA University College, Oslo, Norway
Abstract:
The effects of climate change are felt, at least in Europe, as severe flash floods, unseasonal and prolonged heatwaves, and unusually long periods of drought, which threaten the livelihood of ordinary Europeans in Eastern and Western Europe alike, inclusive of the United Kingdom (the UK). Whilst the issue of climate change seems to be shrouded in political controversy in some parts of the world (Liu & Juang, 2024, p. 1792), climate change-related debates appear to be a staple in political discourse in the UK (Kapranov, 2018a, 2018b). Specifically, the major political parties in the UK are in agreement on the importance of addressing and mitigating the issue of climate change. Whereas there is a substantial body of research on British political discourses associated with climate change, little is known about how the current British prime minister, Keir Starmer, frames his climate change discourse. Seeking to address the present gap, the study, which is further discussed in the article, uses a qualitative framing methodology in order to analyse a corpus of Starmer’s political speeches on climate change. The results of the framing methodology show that Starmer appears to frame his climate change discourse by several qualitatively different types of frames (for instance, Crisis, Finance, Security, etc.), which are further illustrated in the article.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.62838/amph-2025-0131
Pages: 36-48
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