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🗓️ 6 April 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Today, we look at an intervention from the ex-PM over UK arms sales to Israel.
Boris Johnson has said it’s "shameful" to call for the UK to stop sending weapons, and called out Foreign Secretary David Cameron for not being more outspoken on the subject.
And, Laura’s been talking to the outgoing head of Nato, Jens Stoltenberg, who's said the West is facing an "alliance of authoritarian powers".
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 Chris Flynn. The technical producer was Hannah Montgomery. 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 | Patty you have a copy of the Daily Mail. |
0:06.5 | Yes, it's one of the interesting columns from Boris Johnson. |
0:09.0 | Critics say there haven't been many. |
0:10.7 | There have been some about things like how to start a fire and some things that one might imagine if one was being scurrilous that they might have been dictated at haste on the way to doing something else and perhaps hadn't had a huge amount of thought. |
0:22.3 | This one is on the big geopolitical issue. something else and perhaps hadn't had a huge amount of thought. |
0:22.8 | This one is on the big geopolitical issue, |
0:25.1 | but also on the big psycho drama that's been the conservative party |
0:29.5 | because it mentions David Cameron's essence without mentioning David Cameron himself. |
0:35.2 | And that's perfect for you because you love talking about David Cameron. |
0:38.0 | I am obsessed with the return of David Cameron to the government. |
0:40.7 | I admit it and I invite newscasters now to complain to the head of something |
0:46.6 | it's obviously wrong you must complain but it is really interesting because for |
0:51.5 | all sorts of different reasons. |
0:52.7 | Partly it's interesting because foreign affairs has become so high on the agenda in a way that it often isn't. |
0:58.1 | So the work that he's doing is always interesting to talk about. |
1:01.4 | It's also very interesting because what it tells us about the |
1:03.8 | kind of Prime Minister that Rishi Sunak is or perhaps is not and it's also |
1:08.8 | interesting because it brings back all of those sort of rattling Tory ghosts that have been such problems all those |
1:15.1 | profound schisms that have developed over the last few years really since the |
1:19.3 | referendum that have left them in the god-off almost that they're now in. |
1:21.8 | So, camouflage by Laura's perfect analysis of David Cameron's return. |
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