Covid inquiry: Talking "chickenpox parties"

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Ex-civil service chief apologises for suggestions made during the pandemic. To help analyse the latest at the Covid inquiry, Adam is joined by health correspondent Jim Reed and Emma Norris from the Institute for Government. And Adam talks to Professor Ed Hawkins, who's on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, about why this year is set to become the hottest year on record. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere. Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Alex Collins, Gemma Roper and Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Gareth Jones. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcast.
0:04.4	Hello, we're going to dip into two long running stories today,
0:08.9	the latest hit the COVID inquiry, Obbs,
0:11.8	but also what's happening with the climate.
0:14.4	That's on this episode of Newscast.
0:16.0	Newscast.
0:17.0	Newscast from the BBC.
0:18.4	Why can't people buy a house?
0:20.3	Look at their wages.
0:21.5	Do you know any questions on things that are not related to math?
0:23.0	People who say that we were partying simply do not know what they are talking about.
0:28.0	The era of global warming has ended.
0:30.0	The era of global boiling has arrived.
0:32.0	It's the first time ever I've been able to... the hero of global boiling has arrived.
0:32.8	It's the first time ever I've been able to say, well done Kia.
0:36.6	I'll end by tempting her to update newscast and update this house.
0:40.6	The Prime Minister is not under a desk.
0:43.0	Hello, it's Adam in the studio and shortly I'll be joined by Professor Ed Hawkins.
0:47.4	He's the guy that did that very grabby chart of the changes to global temperatures over the centuries where it's colored bars and it goes from
0:55.3	very blue at one end to very red at the other and you see it popping up all over the place. He'll tell us the latest data on climate change. But first of all the latest goings on at the COVID inquiry which we haven't dipped into for a couple of days.
1:07.5	The big witness on Wednesday was Sir Mark Sedwell, Lord Sedwell, who was the Cabinet Secretary in the early stages of the pandemic.
1:15.0	And as you'll know from listening to newscast, that makes him the most senior civil servant,
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