Can Rishi Sunak turn it around?
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Today, Adam and Laura discuss ‘Project Sunak’, and Laura shares some of the insights she’s heard from people who know and have worked with the Prime Minister about what he’s like behind the scenes - as well as the operation to improve his popularity.
And Laura has interviewed Leonid Volkov, a close ally of Alexei Navalny, who was attacked with hammers outside his home in Lithuania last year.
You can read Laura's piece here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy6332vx5n8o 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 Tim Walklate with Miranda Slade. The technical producer was Michael Regaard. 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, Adam and Laura are reunited on a Saturday. |
| 0:07.4 | That's so nice, hello. |
| 0:08.8 | Do you want to press play? |
| 0:09.9 | Oh, I thought we were going to do it after. |
| 0:11.7 | I thought it's tradition now. I thought we were going to do it after the pre-entry. |
| 0:15.0 | No let's just do it now. |
| 0:17.0 | Okay. This is really nice. I should have put it straight forward to the chorus. |
| 0:28.0 | Should I do that? |
| 0:29.0 | We play the chorus at the end. |
| 0:30.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:31.0 | Yeah, okay. |
| 0:32.0 | All right, people get the gist. I'm doing a slow faith. |
| 0:34.4 | Little budget jokebox. Anyway, were you listening earlier in the week? I mean, of course you were. |
| 0:39.5 | When we did the thing about newscasters who'd had encounters with politicians at gigs |
| 0:44.1 | I think this is great fun I think this is absolutely great fun because |
| 0:46.9 | you ever had one what bumped into politician at gig no to think not not |
| 0:52.2 | deliberately I don't think, not deliberately. |
| 0:53.0 | I don't think so. |
| 0:54.0 | Now you've set my mind going, but I don't think so. |
| 0:57.0 | Anyway, we've now expanded it to just interesting bumping into the politicians everywhere. |
| 1:02.0 | I did bump into a politician on holiday staying in the same place for a week. |
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