Conservative Defects!
Newscast
BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Dr Dan Poulter has quit the Conservatives and joins Labour, saying that he “found it increasingly difficult to look my NHS colleagues in the eye”.
Laura, Paddy and Henry discussion all the ramifications; what it means for Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer. And the inevitable question - could it affect when the Prime Minister calls an election?
In Scotland, it’s set to be a bumpy week for Humza Yousaf. Laura’s been speaking with his former boss and head of the Alba party, Alex Salmond, who’s suggested his party could offer support to the SNP. But the First Minister has pledged to battle through without his support. The question is: how?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Well, look, I think we'd be honest with newscasters, |
| 0:07.1 | you've made a lot of scoops. |
| 0:08.8 | It's a very newsy time. |
| 0:10.4 | But very newsy time. |
| 0:11.4 | I mean, look, on question time time on Thursday let's go back there. |
| 0:14.4 | There was a big famous moment with the minister, Chris Philp who you got back on and |
| 0:18.7 | West Street. So let's just revisit that. Yes. Are they then going to be sent to Rwanda if they came here on a crossing? |
| 0:25.0 | From Congo? |
| 0:27.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:28.0 | Would people be sent from... |
| 0:29.0 | Well, Rwanda is a different country of Congo, isn't it? |
| 0:31.0 | It's a different country, it's a different country. |
| 0:32.0 | Yes. Definitely. So It's a different country. Yes. |
| 0:33.0 | So there's a side eye from West Streeting and you put the two of them in today, did you? |
| 0:37.0 | We did well, by chance, they were the guests offered by the parties, right? |
| 0:41.0 | So we didn't mischievously try to rebook West Streeting and |
| 0:45.4 | Chris felt the Labour Party put forward West Street, Downey Street decided that |
| 0:48.8 | Chris felt would handle journalists questions this morning. So we of course thought having had that |
| 0:53.7 | incident earlier in the week that it would be important and interesting and |
| 0:57.3 | maybe a little bit fun to try to relive the moment. Well you can probably tell from that |
| 1:00.8 | clip I was struggling a little bit to hear the question |
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