Consider it Don - Not So Super Tuesday?
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at Super Tuesday, where Americans are voting for their presidential candidate across 15 states + What impact do reparations for slavery have here in the UK?
Donald Trump and Joe Biden look all but set to secure their party’s nominations, but what can we learn about the coming Presidential election from the results? And why is Nikki Hayley hanging on? Adam is joined by former White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney.
Plus the Church of England has been told a £100m fund to right slavery wrongs is “not enough” in a new report. Author, Sathnam Sanghera, explains what difference reparations can make. 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 Sam McLaren and Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Ricardo McCarthy. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, the political interview of the day has been conducted by Gratzia magazine, |
| 0:09.7 | who've been interviewing Ritchie Sunak and his wife about how they share the domestic chores. |
| 0:15.6 | Yes, it is 2024. |
| 0:18.2 | And for me the most revealing thing was just how obsessed the Prime Minister is about his |
| 0:22.0 | bed being made properly and the |
| 0:24.2 | extent to which he will go to ensure that that happens. I'm not a morning person. |
| 0:28.4 | No that's fair but you also just don't like making the bed. |
| 0:33.0 | I mean it bugs me so I actually sometimes come up back into the flat from the office |
| 0:38.0 | after we've all left to make the bed because it's one of his special skills. |
| 0:42.0 | One of his special skills. Yeah so there you. to make the bed because it's not been irritated if it's not been made. |
| 0:44.0 | Yeah so there you go I mean just remember his office is like two floors down from his |
| 0:50.0 | bedroom so it's not like me getting on two trains to get home in the middle of the day. |
| 0:54.8 | Anyway I think we're definitely in this season of politicians popping up in |
| 0:59.5 | non-traditional media for them so for example you've got Rachel Reeves, the |
| 1:04.6 | Labor Shadow Chancellor getting a huge front-page treatment in the |
| 1:08.6 | telegraph over the weekend and then you've got Rishi Sunak and his quite wealthy businesswoman wife appearing in a sort of very |
| 1:16.8 | aspirational but kind of mid-market magazine. And these things come with opportunities and come with |
| 1:21.9 | risks. |
| 1:23.0 | Just remember Theresa May and her husband Philip going on the one show sofa and talking about |
| 1:27.2 | boy jobs and girl jobs. She got a real ribbing for that. |
| 1:31.0 | And then En milliband doing a profile where it turns out he had two kitchens in his house. |
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