Summary
The SNP’s Ian Blackford joins Adam, Chris and Marianna Spring to talk about lambing at his home in Scotland, the cost of living and Partygate – 126 fines have now been issued over lockdown breaches in and around Downing St.
And Tony Danker, head of the Confederation of British Industry, reflects on the chancellor’s speech at the annual CBI dinner last night. He talks tax cuts, the Northern Ireland Protocol and the possibility of a trade war with the EU.
This edition of Newscast was made by Chris Flynn and Miranda Slade. The assistant editor was Alison Gee. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Welcome to the newscast studio this week. |
| 0:06.7 | Marianna Spring, the BBC's disinformation reporter. |
| 0:09.1 | Hello, Marianna. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello. |
| 0:10.8 | Now, I spend about 200 hours on my phone every day, |
| 0:13.2 | and I noticed in one of those hours |
| 0:14.6 | there's a whole new generation of emojis down there |
| 0:17.1 | at the bottom of the keyboard. |
| 0:18.2 | So, and I was gonna get Marianna as an expert |
| 0:20.6 | in the online world to explain them to us, |
| 0:22.3 | but she doesn't have a good enough phone |
| 0:24.0 | to have the new emojis. |
| 0:25.4 | So, I need you to explain them. |
| 0:27.1 | So, we're gonna have to do them together. |
| 0:28.3 | So, the first one, it's sort of like it's a half a face |
| 0:31.6 | with the salute. |
| 0:32.4 | What do we reckon that one's about? |
| 0:33.8 | I think it's sort of peeking out from behind just, |
| 0:36.0 | behind something. |
| 0:37.0 | A wall. |
| 0:37.6 | Middle distance looking. |
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