Another One Bites the Truss

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Suella Braverman has resigned as home secretary and Grant Shapps has taken over. Adam and Chris are joined by Pippa Crerar, the Guardian’s Political Editor, who broke the story. And Frances O’Grady, the General Secretary of the British Trades Union Congress (TUC), talks through what’s been happening at the Brighton Congress and shares her perspective on working with Shapps. Today’s Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming and made by Chris Flynn. The producers were Miranda Slade and Clare Williamson. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:05.1	Hello, I'm glad I didn't have too many, many proseccos after cast fest in the BBC Radio
0:10.4	Theatre on Tuesday night because then I'd have a hangover and I wouldn't be able to cope
0:14.0	with all the huge amount of news that's been happening today.
0:17.2	At 430 on Wednesday afternoon, I was just about to interview Francis O'Grady, the outgoing
0:21.9	boss of the TUC, the trades union congress, the kind of trade union supergroup, and there
0:27.2	was some breaking politics news.
0:29.1	Have you got a phone or a laptop handy because I want you to look at some tweets of some
0:32.1	breaking news so I can get your reaction in real time.
0:34.5	I do have an iPad handy, do you?
0:36.8	Look up, look up, Pippa Creerer's tweets.
0:39.6	She has a goal, no, she.
0:42.7	Suella Braverman, out as home secretary.
0:46.0	She gone.
0:47.0	I think it's very significant if it's true.
0:50.0	Oh, press association, the very, very reliable newswire saying, Suella Braverman has departed
0:55.2	as home secretary, a home office source confirmed.
0:57.2	So that's official.
0:58.2	That's official.
0:59.2	No, wow.
1:00.2	Well, after that all became much clearer.
1:03.7	Suella Braverman, the home secretary, had resigned because of a security breach with
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