Summary
John Whittingdale reflects on losing his job.
In his first interview since getting the sack, former Culture Secretary John Whittingdale tells Laura and Adam that he was told to make room for young up-and-coming Tory MPs. And former Education Secretary Justine Greening expresses her concerns about social mobility in the cabinet.
Today’s Newscast was made by Maz Ebtehaj and Rick Kelsey. Today’s editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | I cannot believe that a press conference about COVID ended up as a sort of rap battle between |
| 0:11.9 | Chris Witti, the Prime Minister Minister and Nicki Minage. |
| 0:15.0 | Well a lot of strange things have happened in the last few years in politics and this was one of them. |
| 0:22.0 | Yeah so basically what happened was |
| 0:23.7 | Nicki Minage had tweeted something about her cousin's friend in Trinidad had had a very |
| 0:29.7 | strange side effect from the COVID vaccine which we're not going to go into also |
| 0:34.2 | because it's not true and it would put you off your tea yeah by the way not |
| 0:38.5 | everybody listening or watching might know who she is she's a pop star rapper. Big social media presence with a lot of and she's just a big |
| 0:47.1 | presence generally and anyway so Chris Wayte Chief Medical Officer was asked about it he was |
| 0:51.7 | furious with anyone who spreads this |
| 0:54.1 | information and then of course Boris Johnson pop found that he is waited in there. |
| 0:59.5 | I'm not familiar with the works of Nicky Minage as I probably should be but I am familiar with |
| 1:04.7 | Nicky canani a superstar GP of Bexley who's appeared many times on before you who |
| 1:11.3 | will tell you that vaccines are wonderful and everybody should get them. |
| 1:15.0 | So I prefer to listen to Nicki Kenarnia. |
| 1:18.0 | Which prompted Hermannargness to then tweak this, |
| 1:22.0 | I love him, even though I guess this was a |
| 1:24.2 | diss, the accent, uh, yas boo, emoji, emoji, emoji, emoji, emoji, emoji, |
| 1:30.3 | Now the strange thing about that for me was that an enormous American star was |
| 1:37.9 | watching a UK government press conference about coronavirus. I found that pretty curious. |
| 1:43.4 | Well everyone wanted to know what was in the autumn and winter plan. Even Nicki Minaj and then |
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