Concrete crisis and the Gillian Keegan rant
This Is Why
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4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
More than 100 schools stayed shut on Monday due to safety fears about reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete - or RAAC – while the education secretary Gillian Keegan was caught on camera complaining about not being thanked for doing a "f***ing good job" over it all.
On the Sky News Daily, Rob Powell speaks to Adrian Tagg, Building Surveying lead at the University of Reading about how far the crisis may spread.
Plus, Sky's Sophy Ridge joins Rob to talk about the political fallout of the RAAC crisis, Labour's reshuffle and the possibility of a new by-election, as her new show The Politics Hub begins on Monday evening.
Podcast producer: Emma-Rae Woodhouse
Interviews producer: Alex Edden
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Senior podcast producer: Annie Joyce
Editor: Wendy Parker
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| 1:05.9 | Hello and welcome to the Sky News Daily podcast with me, Rob Powell, in Westminster today. On the day that |
| 1:12.5 | politics really came roaring back after a sleepy summer, we've had the concrete crisis, the labour |
| 1:17.6 | reshuffle, potentially another by-election. And of course, a new show here on Sky News Politics |
| 1:23.9 | Hub, that's hosted by Sophie Ridge, who's with me now. Hi, Rob. Good to see you. |
| 1:28.8 | Very weird to be on this side asking you questions for Shane. I know. It's weird. I kind of feel I feel it's a bit weird too. I'm much more comfortable on the other side. It's quite hard on this side. I feel like you've got to know more. But anyway, yes, I mean, we're back with bang, aren't we? It has been a breathtaking day already. |
| 1:46.5 | And I think it just really shows why it's an exciting time to be launching a new daily political show. |
| 1:52.8 | I've obviously been doing the Sunday show, which has been an absolute privilege for the last six years. |
| 1:57.5 | But I'm quite looking forward to getting stuck into the kind of daily drumbeat of Westminster. And today is really showing why, because we've got Labor reshuffle, |
| 2:06.5 | we've got crumbling Britain after what some would argue, decades of underinvestment in schools, |
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