Are Government Putting the Brakes on HS2?
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
More politicians refuse to commit to plans for the rail link.
Paddy is joined by Victoria Derbyshire who has been hosting Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. Rachel Johnson, journalist and broadcaster, joins them in the studio fresh from sitting on Victoria’s panel and Henry Zeffman, BBC chief political correspondent, analyses the details of this morning’s interviews.
Victoria’s been speaking to Grant Shapps, defence secretary and former transport secretary, about HS2.
And Paddy has spoken to Sir Vince Cable, former Liberal Democrats leader, about tactical voting while Victoria spoke to current leader Ed Davey about the party’s policy on the EU.
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Today's Newscast was hosted by Paddy O’Connell and Victoria Derbyshire. It was made by Sam Bonham with Miranda Slade. The technical producer was Jonny Hall. The senior news editors are Sam Bonham and Jonathan Aspinwal.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Well, here we all are. |
| 0:05.8 | I mean, it's busy. |
| 0:06.8 | Some days really got its reputation for making the news. |
| 0:10.0 | It's busy wherever you look. |
| 0:11.3 | Who are you looking at? |
| 0:12.6 | Well, I'm looking. I say, wherever you look. |
| 0:14.4 | I mean, I'm not looking anywhere. |
| 0:15.9 | The guy, I suppose, I'm looking at. |
| 0:17.1 | Hello, good morning. How are you? |
| 0:18.5 | I'm very well. Nice to see you. |
| 0:20.0 | And you, and you, on a Sunday, this is very unusual. |
| 0:22.3 | Yes, it has felt in the last week |
| 0:25.2 | in terms of gearing up for an election campaign. |
| 0:28.1 | Things have stepped up. |
| 0:29.4 | That's how it feels to me as a journalist. |
| 0:30.9 | Yes, it's a search for metaphor, starting pistol. |
| 0:33.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:34.0 | The race has begun. |
| 0:34.9 | Yeah, starting gun. |
| 0:36.1 | Yeah, but as Victoria and I were chatting about, |
| 0:39.4 | I just... |
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