Abuse of Truss

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Cabinet divisions dominate the Tory party conference. Adam and Chris chew over another challenging day for Prime Minister Liz Truss, who faces mounting pressure over her refusal to commit to increasing benefits in line with inflation. We discuss a huge protest movement sweeping across Iran with the BBC’s international correspondent Lyse Doucet. And the James Bond film franchise is 60! Adam speaks to producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson about when we can expect the next film. Newscast was hosted by Adam Fleming and political editor Chris Mason. This episode of Newscast was made by Tim Walklate with Miranda Slade, Cordelia Hemming and Madeleine Drury. The technical producer was Mike Regaard and the editor was Jonathan Aspinwall. Thanks to Amazon for clips from ‘The Sound of 007’ documentary, which is available on Prime Video.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.0	Hello from Birmingham. One of the perks
0:07.4	are coming to these conferences is the stuff you get to do on the sidelines.
0:11.0	So yesterday I was mucking around with some virtual reality at the stand run by
0:15.6	Meta, the parent company of Facebook. And just now I've just been on a massive
0:19.7	building site, which will eventually be the Curzon Street station for HS2, the
0:25.7	new high-speed railway line. The builders invited some journalists to come
0:29.5	and have a look at their massive building site. It's pretty huge. There's about
0:33.7	200 people working on it, lots of digging, lots of pouring of concrete, and
0:38.4	they're having to overcome lots of engineering challenges like there's a canal
0:42.3	there. Oh there's a West Coast mainline there. Oh they've got to go over some
0:46.4	existing buildings. And these foundations have to just carry such massive
0:52.0	massive forces. Now seeing this as a political journalist, it's actually quite
0:56.3	cool because I've covered this story as a kind of theoretical thing. And it's
1:00.8	always just been sort of an idea. Now this is the first time I'm really seeing
1:04.8	up close. Shovels in the ground, building HS2. Anyway working progress, that's
1:11.0	quite a good description of the Conservative Party at the moment. So that's
1:13.8	enough train talk. Let's have some news talk in this episode of Newscast.
1:17.7	Newscast from the BBC. We will deliver, we will deliver, we will deliver.
1:23.1	Be on the back better. Blah blah blah, green economy. Blah blah blah. I've
1:27.8	absolutely apologised for using their words, scumbag. Enough is enough.
1:32.7	Has to love Easter. Baby. Funny enough it was tractors I was looking at.
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