Summary
Dominic Cummings didn’t hold back in an extraordinary seven hour committee today. He said Boris Johnson wanted to be injected with coronavirus live on TV, that he thought the Prime Minister was unfit for the job, and he revealed more information about that infamous trip to Barnard Castle. Adam, Laura and former civil servant, Sam Freedman, talk it through.
Today’s Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with Maz Ebtehaj and Alix Pickles. The Studio Director is Emma Crowe. Dino Sofos is the Editor.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, well, it turned out to be the political blockbuster we had been promised. |
| 0:09.7 | Dominic Cummings, seven hours of evidence to two committees of MPs in Parliament today, |
| 0:16.1 | and he actually quoted one of my favourite blockbusters to paint a really vivid picture |
| 0:20.9 | of just what it was like being right at the heart of government when COVID |
| 0:24.4 | struck and everything just went wrong. |
| 0:28.7 | This is like a scene from Independence Day with Jeff Goldblum saying the aliens are here and your whole plan is |
| 0:34.2 | broken and you need a new plan right? Well that's the trailer now for the main |
| 0:37.8 | feature which is going to be entirely about this amazing moment in Parliament today on this edition of |
| 0:44.2 | newscast. |
| 0:45.2 | Newscast. |
| 0:46.2 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:47.2 | It will take some time before we figure out what our new normal is. |
| 0:51.6 | Now if that is the argument, then we are going into unprecedented television. |
| 0:55.9 | Combined with contact tasting, testing, tracing for you. |
| 1:01.6 | Yes, yes, yes. I'm a vegan, so of course I don't like meatballs. |
| 1:05.0 | Next slide please. |
| 1:07.0 | Blair, Blair, Blair, Blair, |
| 1:09.0 | lose, lose. |
| 1:11.0 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio. |
| 1:13.0 | And Laura in a different studio, hello. |
| 1:15.0 | And because Laura has just had 45 minutes to turn seven hours of television into seven minutes of television, |
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