Between a Frock and a Hard Place?

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Today, the focus is once again on the Labour party which is having to deal with some difficult stories as it prepares to kick off its annual party conference in Liverpool.

Laura is in Liverpool waiting for Labour conference to begin; she and Paddy discuss the news that the PM, Chancellor and Deputy PM will no longer accept donations for clothing. Will it be enough to draw a line under the row about donations that threatens to loom over Labour’s first party conference as the governing party in 15 years?

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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell. It was made by Miranda Slade with Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Jeremy Morgan. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello.
0:05.6	Hello.
0:06.6	You're not here.
0:07.6	I'm not here, but I am very much here in mind because you've just told me an absolutely
0:11.9	incredible piece of gossip
0:13.3	that's got nothing to do with the news but it's got something to do with the
0:15.6	world and I can't tell anybody but it's amazing but we will bring you lots of very
0:20.4	interesting information the next half hour I promise.
0:22.8	Yeah, it's only personal stuff.
0:24.5	It's nothing that you should think is any newsworthy.
0:26.9	But the things you also sound to me very much like you're in a hurricane,
0:30.4	but we'll just put that off for the moment. We celebrated our 1500 newscast.
0:37.0	I know it wasn't that amazing and I'm sorry it wasn't there but we made it to 1,500 episodes that is insane and I was delighted to see that and sorry that I couldn't
0:46.0	be with everybody, especially because I missed the cake.
0:48.9	I think you were also horrified by what Chris Mason did with the cake?
0:52.8	Well, I couldn't quite believe it.
0:54.3	Somebody kindly sent me a little video snippet
0:56.5	of you having the cake and having a celebration
0:58.9	and having a very nice time.
1:00.2	But I did then see what at first I thought
1:02.4	could not possibly be Chris Mason sticking his finger in the
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