Summary
Labour 1, Lib Dems 1, Conservatives 1.
For this LIVE Newscast, Adam chats with some of our favourite BBC political correspondents and reporters, Alex Forsyth, Chris Mason, Nick Watt, Jeremy Vine, David Wallace Lockhart, Jenny Kumar and polling expert John Curtice to discuss the ins and outs of the overnight by-election results.
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Today's Newscast was hosted by Adam Fleming. It was made by Alex Collins and Hayley Clarke. The technical producer was Ben Andrews. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, we have just done a live episode of newscast that went out in real time, unedited |
| 0:11.9 | on the BBC iPlayer on Friday morning, where all the friends of the podcaster into politics |
| 0:17.1 | got together to chew over the results of last night's bi-elections that were in Summerton |
| 0:24.0 | and Froome, Selby and Ainstee, and Oxbridge and West Rice Slip. Spoiler alert, the result |
| 0:31.2 | was Labour 1, Liberal Democrats 1, and quite surprisingly to some people, Tories 1. And |
| 0:40.2 | because everyone has been up all night and loves these moments where there's loads of |
| 0:44.1 | data and theories to chew over, it all got a bit like one of those scenes in Gremlins |
| 0:49.5 | from the Gremlins all run wild. Anyway, you're now going to hear how it panned out. |
| 0:54.4 | On this episode of newscast. Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:58.4 | He got trounced by the former Prime Minister, who herself got beaten by a letter. At least |
| 1:03.0 | I didn't slap anybody which is good. Green economy, lab lab lab. It's the Guardian reading. |
| 1:08.6 | Tofu eating, woke her hearty. I'm actually very right-wing. You do come up with the most |
| 1:13.5 | remarkable twaddle. Today I feel gay. The Prime Minister is not under a desk. Amir, |
| 1:19.3 | because I like Harry and Meghan. And I don't care what anybody says about me. |
| 1:23.2 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio. Hello, it's Alex in the studio. |
| 1:26.3 | Political correspondent and presenter of any questions. When did you get up? |
| 1:30.2 | About 1.45 am. Still going fairly strong, but ask me again at 8 o'clock tonight when I'm |
| 1:34.7 | going to go on air for any questions and I think it'll be a different matter. |
| 1:37.5 | OK, tightrope, tightrope. So 1.45, I suppose people were just filling |
| 1:42.8 | at that point, didn't they? Because we didn't have the first results until three something |
| 1:46.8 | issue. Bit before. So I actually got a set my alarm for 1.45 was up and about by like |
| 1:51.3 | two. Thought I might have missed one of them, but no, I was there. So they were recounting |
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