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. |
| 0:04.6 | I cannot believe that a press conference about COVID ended up as a sort of rap battle between Chris |
| 0:12.2 | Witty, the Prime Minister, and Nikki Minaj. |
| 0:15.4 | Well, a lot of strange things have happened in the last few years in politics. |
| 0:21.4 | And this was one of them. |
| 0:22.6 | Yeah, so basically what happened was, |
| 0:23.9 | Nikki Minaj had tweeted something about her cousin's friend in Trinidad |
| 0:29.1 | had had a very strange side effect from the COVID vaccine, |
| 0:32.2 | which we're not going to go into, also because it's not true. |
| 0:35.7 | And it would put you off your tea. |
| 0:37.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:37.6 | By the way, not everybody listening or watching might know who she is. |
| 0:40.7 | She's a pop star rapper. |
| 0:43.7 | There we go. |
| 0:44.1 | Big social media presence with a lot of, and she's just a big presence generally. |
| 0:48.3 | And anyway, so Chris Waity, Chief Medical Officer was asked about it. |
| 0:51.4 | He was furious with anyone who spreads this information. And then, of course, |
| 0:56.0 | Boris Johnson, pop fan that he is, waited in there. I'm not familiar with the works of Nicky Minage, |
| 1:01.9 | as I probably should be. But I am familiar with Nikki Canani, a superstar GP of Bexley, |
| 1:08.0 | who's appeared many times before you, who will tell you that vaccines are |
| 1:13.0 | wonderful and everybody should get them. So I prefer to listen to Nikki Canani. |
| 1:18.5 | Which prompted her monogynist to then tweak this. I love him. Even though I guess this was a |
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