By-Election: Labour Day in Scotland
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Starmer tells campaigners they "blew the doors off" in Friday's by-election.
Adam is joined by Scotland editor, James Cook, and political scientist, Professor Sir John Curtice, to analyse the results in Rutherglen and Hamilton West.
And, on its 10th birthday, the National Crime Agency’s director general, Graeme Biggar, is in the studio talking about illegal migration, organised crime, and fraud.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, well after my shaming of the emptiness of the newscast inbox in the last episode, |
| 0:11.0 | we've had an email and it's from Jonathan, who emailed newscast at BBC.co.uk in case |
| 0:15.5 | you hadn't guessed. |
| 0:16.5 | And he said, hello Adam, hello Jonathan, I've noticed that we've got very caught up |
| 0:20.6 | in the party conference season and haven't talked about the bilections that are either |
| 0:24.5 | coming up or occur yesterday. |
| 0:26.6 | Could we have some analysis on what the latest result means? |
| 0:29.9 | Thanks Jonathan, who listens when on the bus to college. |
| 0:33.5 | Well Jonathan, as a thank you to you for emailing us on newscast at BBC.co.uk, we're going |
| 0:39.9 | to dedicate the first half of this episode of newscast to the result of the rather |
| 0:44.5 | Glenn and Hamilton West bilection, which was held on Thursday and proved to be quite |
| 0:49.6 | successful for labour. |
| 0:52.0 | And by the way you can always watch us on 0-3-3-0-1-2-3-9-4-80, but wait till the end of this episode |
| 0:58.3 | of newscast. |
| 1:23.6 | The Prime Minister is not under a desk. |
| 1:26.3 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio and shortly I will be joined by the head of the National |
| 1:31.3 | Crime Agency. |
| 1:32.3 | Just don't call it the British FBI and don't think they like that. |
| 1:35.4 | Anyway, first of all we're going to talk about the big labour victory overnight in the |
| 1:39.3 | rather Glenn and Hamilton West bilection. |
| 1:42.6 | You remember that was triggered because the sitting SNP MP Margaret Ferrier got in trouble |
| 1:48.6 | because she had travelled on quite a long train journey when she tested positive for |
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