Summary
The PM again apologises for lockdown fines - but could backbench Tory MPs turn on him in the coming days and weeks? Adam is joined by the BBC’s Vicki Young to chew over another day of high drama in the Commons.
Also… It’s thought that Downing Street and Foreign Office computer systems have been infected with spyware. We speak to the BBC’s Gordon Corera and cyber security expert Robert Pritchard about the spyware ‘Pegasus’ which is believed to have been used to carry out surveillance through infecting phones with malicious software.
Today’s Newscast was made by Tim Walklate with Ben Cooper, Miranda Slade and Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Emma Crowe and the editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, hope you had a nice Easter holiday. |
| 0:07.0 | My first day back in the office has been dominated |
| 0:09.3 | by going on train websites because the government's |
| 0:11.8 | launched a sale on train tickets |
| 0:13.7 | to encourage people back onto the realways |
| 0:15.8 | because they haven't returned |
| 0:17.2 | to their pre-pandemic passenger levels yet. |
| 0:19.4 | But we thought professional skeptics that we are, |
| 0:22.6 | is this too good to be true? |
| 0:24.0 | So we're now gonna do a little taste test |
| 0:26.1 | to see just what a good deal this real-way sale actually is. |
| 0:29.9 | So I'm on the website now. |
| 0:32.0 | We're gonna do Kings Cross to Inverness. |
| 0:37.3 | Now this is a good one because that's an eight hour, |
| 0:39.1 | seven minute train journey. |
| 0:41.0 | Oh, 25 pounds, 20, which compares to 91 pounds, 50 normally. |
| 0:47.2 | That's quite a good deal. |
| 0:48.6 | How about Manchester Picadilly to, |
| 0:53.3 | where do we wanna go from Manchester? |
| 0:55.2 | We're feel, it's like quite a long way away. |
| 0:57.3 | Norwich. |
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