BREAKING Newscast: Conservative Defects! (Again)
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Today we look at the shock defection of another MP from the Tories to Labour.
Keir Starmer welcomed the MP for Dover and Deal Natalie Elphicke to his side of the house at Wednesday’s Prime Minister’s Questions. It’s the second defection from the Conservatives to Labour in the past fortnight after the MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich Dan Poulter also crossed the floor.
Adam and Chris are reunited for an emergency episode to explain what’s happened and what this means for both Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer.
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It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Flynn with Gemma Roper and Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Adrian Bhargava. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Chris, should we just do the story of our morning so far? |
| 0:07.0 | Why not? |
| 0:08.0 | So we recorded a very excellent episode of newscast with John and Sally from BBC Breakfast and the |
| 0:14.6 | science secretary of state Michelle Donovan about keeping children safe online and |
| 0:19.0 | that episode was ready to get published and it now is out in the wild and you should definitely |
| 0:23.2 | listen to it but then just seconds before midday everyone's getting ready to |
| 0:28.0 | watch prime minister's questions me on my laptop you in the house of commons |
| 0:31.2 | what happened well yeah here we are with our second newscaster the day, |
| 0:35.0 | and we're normally six hours shy of doing our first one. |
| 0:38.0 | So there we were, there I was in the press gallery of the House of Commons, |
| 0:42.0 | looking down on the the chamber and |
| 0:45.6 | suddenly on the beat of midday a WhatsApp flies round with a long statement from |
| 0:51.9 | Natalie Elphick Conservative MP for Dover, saying that she's joining the Labour Party. |
| 0:58.0 | And I looked down and I could see just behind Kia Starler, there she was. |
| 1:03.0 | In what's known as the dough nut around the leaders, |
| 1:05.0 | in other words, the seats that you have to sit in |
| 1:07.0 | to appear on the telly when your boss is stood on their feet |
| 1:11.0 | saying their thing. |
| 1:12.0 | Then there's a few questions and |
| 1:14.7 | answers and back and forth. Up stands Kia Starmer and with a blast of theatre he |
| 1:20.6 | congratulates the new Labour MP for Blackpool South, the guy who won that by election last week, |
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