Can Labour Climb The Investment Summit?
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4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Today, we look at the Government’s attempts to attract billions in funding at a glitzy investment summit.
Keir Starmer told investors at the event in the City of London that he will scrap regulation and red tape that “holds back investment”. BBC Business Editor, Simon Jack, tells Adam and Chris how it went.
Plus, the public inquiry into the poisoning of a woman in Salisbury with Novichok. Dawn Sturgess died after being exposed to the same nerve agent used to target a former Russian military officer, Sergei Skripal, four months earlier. Marie Lennon, presenter of the Crime Next Door podcast, joins Adam. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Anna Harris and Ruchira Sharma. 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 | Hello, I hope you found mine and Chris's chat with the Prime Minister |
| 0:08.5 | informative. |
| 0:09.5 | It certainly made lots of news over the weekend, but one thing that stuck with me was the number of nautical metaphors he used when he talked about what the government had been buffeted by, side winds, headwinds, and they're kind of quite evocative, but I thought what actually are those when it comes to |
| 0:25.9 | sailing. So we've managed to rope in, oh is that another nautical metaphor, an actual real life |
| 0:31.0 | sailor to help us understand these terms. |
| 0:33.9 | Please welcome to newscast Hannah Snellgrove who was a sailor for Team G. |
| 0:38.4 | who competed in the Paris 2024 Olympics. Hello Hannah. |
| 0:41.8 | Hi there, hi. |
| 0:43.0 | Tell me as an expert in side winds. |
| 0:46.0 | What actually is a side wind? |
| 0:48.0 | Oh, a side wind if you're traveling along. |
| 0:51.0 | It's something that hits you from sort of I guess 90 degrees so it can kind of |
| 0:56.2 | of nowhere and just blow you off course that would be my definition and is that different |
| 1:01.8 | from a headwind? So a headwind is the wind that comes in the opposite direction to the one that you're traveling in, which is pretty important in sailing because you can't actually go straight into a headwind you have to, |
| 1:14.3 | well we call it tak but you have to like zigzag because the physics means that you can't go straight into a headwind. |
| 1:19.8 | Well I'm thinking these are actually quite good metaphor us for a government that's found itself getting a bit kind of bumped around by things that didn't expect to actually. |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah, I'd say so I think the other thing with headwind is that if you think about like apparent wind so if you stuck your head out of a car or your hand out of a car I'm not |
| 1:34.5 | recommending that you do this but you know when you're going really fast you feel like the |
| 1:37.8 | winds coming out you regardless of where the actual winds coming from as well so |
| 1:42.4 | something else with headwinds is that the faster that you go into them |
| 1:45.8 | the stronger they will feel. Is that a good metaphor? |
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