Summary
The shadow chancellor’s take on the Budget
The fallout from the Budget and spending review continues, as the IFS today says millions of people will be worse off by 2022. The Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves joins Adam and Chris to explain how Labour would do things differently.
And ahead of the UN Climate Change conference, COP26, which kicks off on Sunday, Newscast has enlisted students from Vyners School in west London to ask some questions about the climate crisis. Isabella O’Dowd, the head of climate change at WWF, helps us answer them.
Today’s episode of Newscast was made by Maz Ebtehaj and Danny Wittenberg. The assistant editors is Emma Close and Alison Gee. Jonathan Aspinwall is the editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | What are we going to ask here, Starmer? |
| 0:06.2 | I've been thinking about this for ages, because we've wanted to get him on the pod for |
| 0:09.4 | for ages, haven't we? |
| 0:10.5 | Yeah, there's so much we could ask. Five-a-side football. |
| 0:14.0 | I've always wanted to ask him about that. |
| 0:15.0 | What was it like finally doing a conference speech? |
| 0:17.0 | In front of actual people? |
| 0:19.0 | Reacting to the budget. |
| 0:20.0 | In front of actual... |
| 0:22.0 | Hang on. He's got COVID. He's at home. |
| 0:25.9 | What are we going to do? We've got his stand in. It's the Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves who |
| 0:30.7 | did this very thing in the budget response in Parliament this week. |
| 0:34.0 | Hello Rachel. |
| 0:35.0 | I got a whole 45 minutes notice for that. |
| 0:38.0 | I want you to take us Rachel to the moment when I don't know what happened where were you did the phone |
| 0:43.8 | ring when did it suddenly dawn on you that oh my goodness I'm gonna have to |
| 0:48.6 | stand in for the boss well I was just walking back to my office past Kia's office and I walked into the sort of room with a staff |
| 0:58.2 | hour and I said shall I pop in and see Kia and there was this like deathly silence in the office and I said |
| 1:05.6 | should I pop in now they just said no Kia's got COVID. |
| 1:11.6 | I and and Kie has got COVID. And there was a sort of paralysis in the room of no one quite knowing what to do, |
| 1:19.0 | but we knew we had to quickly swing into action. |
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