Could More Government U-Turns Be On The Way?

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🗓️ 24 May 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:04.8	I'm not sure there needs to be much further debate about whether or not it was a U-turn.
0:09.0	There has been some.
0:10.4	For my money, it's your classic 100% smell the burning rubber screeching U-turn.
0:18.9	So that's not really much debate there.
0:21.1	Not really.
0:22.3	I mean, and we've seen lots of U-turns before also when they say,
0:24.5	but we'll have to tell you what else we're going to do in the stead a bit later on.
0:27.8	But yeah, classic U-turn.
0:28.9	For this newscast and for our newscasters,
0:31.8	does one U-turn open the floodgates? Potentially, and it does shake the credibility a little bit of the decision makers at the top of
0:41.4	government, but when you still have a majority of a gazillion, this does not open the door
0:46.6	to the government necessarily giving way on lots and lots and lots of things.
0:50.0	So if you don't have time, that is our whole Saturday newscast in 90 seconds.
0:54.6	But here we go with the rest of it.
0:56.7	Newscast.
0:57.2	Newscast from the BBC.
0:59.0	He has just compared me to the fat controller.
1:01.9	Did I say that?
1:03.4	I can't believe I said that.
1:04.8	Next question.
1:05.6	This is R for the benefit of Earth.
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