Boris Johnson at Covid Inquiry + SURPRISE Government Resignation

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Today on Newscast, the former Prime Minister Boris Johnson gives evidence to the Covid inquiry in the first of a two-day questioning of his government’s handling of the pandemic. Adam is joined by the BBC’s health reporter Jim Reed as well as Alex Thomas from the Institute for Government and The FT’s Lucy Fisher to unpack the key issues and what we’ve learnt from his evidence.

And, the government has published emergency Rwanda legislation which makes clear that in UK law, Rwanda is a safe country for asylum seekers. Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick resigns, arguing the bill doesn’t go far enough. Adam and his guests react to this breaking news.

You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Gemma Roper, Hanna Ward and Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Michael Regaard. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	I swear by Almighty God, that the evidence I shall give shall be the truth, and nothing but the truth.
0:13.8	Boris Johnson, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,
0:17.0	being sworn in to give evidence at the COVID inquiry.
0:20.4	He started at about 10 a.m.
0:22.1	on Wednesday morning, finished at about 4.30 in the afternoon,
0:25.0	and this is just his first helping because he'll be back to give evidence on Thursday as well.
0:30.0	What does it all mean?
0:31.0	And how does it interact with quite a lot of the other news that was happening in British politics today?
0:35.0	We will explain all on this episode of Newscast.
0:38.0	Newscast. Newscast from the BBC.
0:40.0	Why can't people buy a house?
0:42.0	Look at their wages.
0:43.4	Do you have any questions on things that are not related to math?
0:45.4	People who say that we were partying simply do not know what they are talking about.
0:49.8	The era of global warming has ended. the ERA of global boiling has arrived.
0:54.8	It's the first time ever, I've been able to say, well done, Kia.
0:58.6	I'll end by tempting her to update newscast and update this house.
1:02.6	The Prime Minister is not under a desk.
1:05.2	Hello, it's Adam in the studio and as we are recording this episode of
1:09.1	newscast at 639 on Wednesday, our attention is focusing on another big story which is the government's
1:15.7	published its draft legislation to make the Rwanda relocation plan work and it looks like maybe the immigration minister Robert Genrick isn't happy with
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