Summary
Labour’s deputy leader, Angela Rayner, says she sometimes wishes Keir Starmer would "put some more welly into it" to make the public love him as much as she does.
She also talks to Adam, Jo Coburn and Emma Vardy about why she’s so confident she and the labour leader won’t be fined for having beer and a curry in Durham last year.
And Chris Mason has been in Blackpool where the prime minister announced plans to allow benefits to be put towards mortgages.
This edition of Newscast was made by Chris Flynn. The assistant editor was Alison Gee. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | On this episode of Newscast, we're joined by our colleague from Belfast, Amavardy. |
| 0:08.4 | Hello, welcome. |
| 0:09.8 | Thank you so much, great to be here. |
| 0:11.2 | Shall we have a tour or a long chat about the Northern Ireland protocol? |
| 0:13.7 | I would like nothing more. |
| 0:15.2 | Sorry, Joe. |
| 0:16.2 | No, I'm just kidding. |
| 0:18.4 | There was some news this week, though, and I want to ask you, is there going to be a |
| 0:22.2 | phone charger border down the Irish Sea? |
| 0:25.2 | Oh, it looks like there is. |
| 0:27.7 | Now, I spent so much my life running around trying to get more juice into my phone and then |
| 0:32.7 | draining it again, scrolling through Twitter or whatever. |
| 0:35.7 | But remember these cables you get when you get one plug in the middle and then all the |
| 0:39.7 | different phone charger cables for the different makes of phones? |
| 0:42.0 | Well, the EU's basically agreed, look, we're going to end all that. |
| 0:44.9 | What we're going to do by autumn 2024 is agree that all portable devices, so phones |
| 0:49.7 | and I guess that includes things like iPads as well, must use the same charger. |
| 0:53.9 | Now, you might think that's pretty convenient, right? |
| 0:55.4 | I do. |
| 0:56.4 | You're already one's charger and charge things up. |
| 0:59.6 | But the UK said, well, actually, we're not thinking of following those plans because we |
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