Summary
Laura explains what's happening inside Downing Street on the day Boris Johnson's director of communications, Lee Cain, resigns. And Adam is joined by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Sussex to talk about how he is preparing to roll out government’s plan to mass test students.
Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Frankie Tobi, Jo Deahl, Ben Weisz Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, it's one of those days again, |
| 0:06.5 | where we recorded the latest episode of newscast |
| 0:09.4 | at about 630, and Laura and I had a discussion about shenanigans going on about top jobs in Number 10 Downing Street. |
| 0:19.0 | Now since we've recorded that |
| 0:23.3 | Cane has resigned. He is a senior very pivotal figure in Downing Street, |
| 0:30.1 | so his departure is definitely something that we should note. |
| 0:34.0 | Now obviously it's happened since we recorded the episode. |
| 0:38.0 | So what you're here now is the episode that we did |
| 0:41.0 | with the background leading up to what happened, it's just that you now know |
| 0:46.1 | more about what happened than we did at the time. |
| 0:50.1 | And there's also plenty of other stuff about coronavirus and other things in the news today on this edition of Newscast. |
| 0:57.0 | Newscast. |
| 0:58.0 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:00.0 | What is this virus? How does it spread? |
| 1:02.0 | How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones? |
| 1:04.6 | No one's got to have a clue what Brexit is. |
| 1:07.2 | There have been 300,000 and 34,974,000 tests carried out across the UK. |
| 1:14.5 | The reason we could never be who we wanted |
| 1:18.8 | is you kept your knee on our neck. |
| 1:21.3 | We're not out of the woods yet. |
| 1:24.0 | Hello it's Adam in the studio and Ferguson in the studio. |
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