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🗓️ 10 December 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest news stories from the BBC. Today, we look at the divisions within the Conservative Party.
Laura?s been talking Robert Jenrick who resigned as immigration minister this week, as well as the levelling up secretary, Michael Gove.
Former No. 10 advisor and founder of the blog site Conservative Home Tim Montgomerie is in the Newscast studio reacting to what they had to say.
And we look ahead at Rishi Sunak?s evidence at the Covid inquiry on Monday.
You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Today's Newscast was presented by Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O?Connell. It was made by Chris Flynn with Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Jonny Hall. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:04.8 | Hello. Hello. |
0:07.7 | Hi. |
0:08.7 | Welcome back. Thank you. |
0:10.4 | I can't believe how much work you've done in Ukraine and now you're back here. |
0:14.0 | I'm here and I might have to have a little snooze on the sofa. |
0:16.2 | So sit down and get a barrow ticket if I fall asleep. |
0:18.9 | Every aeroplane I ever get on, I don't like it. |
0:22.1 | I just really bad at flying. |
0:23.5 | Look, enough about that. |
0:24.6 | So we're going to talk about the politics at home that you've flown into. |
0:28.8 | We are going to talk about the politics at home. |
0:30.5 | And we're going to talk about Robert Jennerick's first interview |
0:32.8 | since he quit sensationally walking out of government, |
0:35.7 | which I'm pleased to say was in our studio this morning. |
0:38.7 | And he was on at the very beginning alongside Michael Gove. |
0:42.1 | So we had two different versions, very different versions, of whether or not Rishi Soonak's flagship policy to stop the boats will work. |
0:49.7 | This was Robert Jenrick, very categorically saying, no. |
0:53.0 | I couldn't be the minister who was guiding |
0:56.1 | this critical bill through Parliament, recommending it to parliamentarians and to the public, |
1:02.2 | if I felt as I do, that it is a weak bill that won't work. And then a few minutes later, Michael |
1:07.3 | Gove, who had the conch for the government this week, lucky man with everything that's going on, and he was making the case very firmly that it will. |
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