A Braverman Decision to Make
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
What will Rishi Sunak do with the home secretary?
Suella Braverman says she is "confident nothing untoward happened", but has refused to be drawn over whether she asked civil servants to arrange a one-to-one speed awareness course for her.
Standing in for Adam today are Americast presenters Marianna Spring and Justin Webb, who are joined by Newsnight political editor Nick Watt and Sir Jonathan Jones, who was the government’s most senior lawyer, to take part in their very own ‘ministerial code awareness course’.
And a new investigative journalism team called BBC Verify has been launched today, tasked with countering disinformation and fact checking. But how exactly does it work?
Today’s Newscast was presented by Marianna Spring and Justin Webb. It was made by Tim Walklate with Rufus Gray and George Dabby. The technical producer was Ben Andrews. The senior news editor is Damon Rose.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.5 | It's 6 o'clock on Monday, the 22nd of May. Good morning, this is today. |
| 0:15.4 | I thought that was a pre-record. |
| 0:17.1 | Whoa! |
| 0:18.1 | I just, unlike Pavlos Dog, I can't stop myself doing it. It's just in here, just in |
| 0:24.4 | way from the today programme. |
| 0:26.0 | And I'm Marianne Spring. I am the BBC's disinformation and social media correspondent. |
| 0:31.7 | Interesting, isn't it? There are two of us, because we're filling in for Adam, who |
| 0:36.4 | seems to be capable of doing this mostly on his own with a space-grace Mason's occasional |
| 0:40.5 | help. They got a duo in to do it. But of course, duos are rather in the news at the moment. |
| 0:47.4 | Are they indeed the duo? Well, at least a half of the duo who did this programme very |
| 0:53.4 | recently and have now gone on to what they may regard as better things? |
| 0:57.7 | Yep, so Tina de Hilly and Dermato Leary presented the last episode of newscast and then |
| 1:03.4 | Dermato Leary presented Monday Morning's episode of this morning on ITV. And that is because |
| 1:10.2 | Holly and Phil, who usually present that, weren't presenting. And that is because Philips |
| 1:15.5 | Gofield is now no longer going to be presenting this morning, which he's announced. And that |
| 1:21.0 | comes after rumours of a rift between him and Holly. So, duos are on the brain. |
| 1:26.0 | So here's how a Dermat and Alison Hammond dealt with it. |
| 1:29.6 | We can't start today's show without paying tribute to the man who spent the last two decades |
| 1:34.4 | sitting on this morning so far, Philips Gofield. |
| 1:37.5 | So as a show, everyone on an off-screen ITV and this morning want to say a huge thank you |
| 1:43.6 | to Phil for what is done to make the show such as success over the last 21 years. |
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