Summary
Ex-cabinet minister Amber Rudd at COP. The former home secretary – and energy secretary at the time of the last historic climate conference – joins Adam in Glasgow to look at how much progress has been made in the first few days of this summit.
And Laura and Chris are in Westminster where the Tory MP Owen Paterson has quit after being found to have broken lobbying rules. The row involved an embarrassing U-turn for the government and brought back questions about trust in politics. Not usually one to go easy on Boris Johnson, Amber Rudd thinks Number 10’s handling of it all was an “epic and baffling” mistake.
Today’s Newscast was made by Danny Wittenberg. The assistant editors were Alison Gee and Sam Bonham. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Laura working on the basis that there is no newscast tradition not worth reviving. |
| 0:09.0 | What's that? |
| 0:10.0 | That makes me really worried. |
| 0:12.0 | Foodstuffs. |
| 0:13.0 | The return, because cake was a big thing for us, wasn't it during the Brexit years? |
| 0:17.0 | It was. |
| 0:18.0 | And now, cross-ons. |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah, and it's... |
| 0:21.0 | Oh, you are actually eating on the telly. |
| 0:24.0 | Fly me. |
| 0:25.0 | If Ed Miller Band was here, we tell me it was not advisable. |
| 0:27.0 | Is that a plant-based quasant or a normal butter-based quasant? |
| 0:32.0 | Because I've been learning all about the difference. |
| 0:33.5 | Well this is where your expertise is going to be lent upon Adam. |
| 0:36.0 | It is a butter-based cross-un I'm, |
| 0:37.8 | what are you talking about Adam? |
| 0:40.8 | So basically the greatest piece of investigative journalism I've done my entire career was here at COP 26 the climate change |
| 0:46.8 | conference in Glasgow I was going for breakfast one morning. This has reached legendary status already. |
| 0:51.9 | And we've already talked about it on the podcast on BBC Sounds this week, but now here's the TV version |
| 0:57.2 | with added pictures of Chris Mason Eying a quasson in case you didn't know what one looked like. |
| 1:02.6 | And I was surprised to find out that a plant-based quasant |
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