Better The Sunak You Know?
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at Rishi Sunak’s claim that the election would be a choice “between past and future”, as Labour accused him of rebranding again.
In a wide-ranging speech, the PM said that Keir Starmer would make the UK less safe and that the Tories are “the only party really talking about the future.” But Labour responded by claiming this was Rishi Sunak’s “7th reset” during his time in office. Are the battlegrounds for the election being drawn? Adam is joined by Chris who questioned Sunak after the speech.
And the Birth Trauma Inquiry was presented to parliament, finding that there was “shockingly poor services” in maternity care. It contained harrowing evidence of medical negligence from more than 1,300 women. Adam speaks to Theo Clarke, the Conservative MP who led the inquiry, and Suzanne White, Head of the Medical Negligence team at Leigh Day. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack McLaren with Elliot Ryder and Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello Chris. |
| 0:05.4 | Hi. |
| 0:06.4 | And I know it's you because one of the Prime Minister's little tactics has been |
| 0:11.5 | revealed today by Rob Hutton who is the parliamentary |
| 0:15.0 | sketch writer for the Critic magazine and I'm not sure how this actually happened |
| 0:19.2 | did he sneak behind Rishi Sunach's lecterntern after he'd given the speech. |
| 0:23.0 | And what was on the Lactor and alongside the text of the speech is a little cheat sheet of all the |
| 0:27.5 | journalists who are going to ask questions including your name, your outlet and a little picture. |
| 0:33.0 | Yeah, I did. |
| 0:34.0 | You know what, I'd never noticed that before. |
| 0:36.6 | I don't know if he does that every time. |
| 0:38.6 | Well, I think it does have a bit of a parallel with from looking down upon him at Prime Minister's questions on a Wednesday lunchtime from the press gallery |
| 0:46.1 | is that when he is taking questions from backbenchers at Prime Minister's questions, |
| 0:50.9 | he has a sheet of paper that distills who they are and presumably some key |
| 0:57.2 | facts about the question that might well be coming and it also includes a |
| 1:02.0 | little mug shot so that he can make sure he can pick them out. |
| 1:05.0 | The curious thing with the press conference mug shot thing is firstly the people he called today |
| 1:09.0 | are the kind of folk he tends to call fairly frequently. |
| 1:12.0 | And then secondly, once he asks us, the microphone's handed to us and we stand up. |
| 1:16.9 | So, you know, in that sense, we kind of find him rather than having to find us. |
| 1:21.4 | Anyway, there you go. |
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