Electioncast: Argy Bargy in Basildon and Billericay

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Today, the election campaign quietened down as political figures took part in D-Day commemoration events.

Adam, Chris and Laura discuss Lord Cameron’s visit to Normandy, how candidate selection works - and the rush to find candidates in some areas, as well as the Green Party’s NHS policy.

A full list of candidates will be available on the BBC website when they are published.

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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Miranda Slade with Gemma Roper and Sam McLaren. 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.
0:05.0	Laura and Chris, a misleading number has been put into the public domain.
0:09.4	Oh really?
0:10.0	And it needs to be corrected.
0:12.0	Right.
0:12.9	And it was put out by me on yesterday's newscast
0:16.1	available on BBC Sounds
0:17.6	where I'm going to write to the office for National Statistics
0:20.3	immediately.
0:22.1	And then maybe they'll write a quite woosy letter back because they didn't want to rock the boat too much.
0:26.0	Anyway, that's a discussion for another day.
0:28.0	Anyway, we're going to do episodes of newscast live on Radio 4 on Saturday mornings for the duration of the election
0:35.7	campaign and I made this big announcement about it yesterday on newscast on our
0:39.8	podcast episode on BBC sounds but I got the time wrong.
0:43.6	Oh, for goodness sake.
0:45.0	And I got the time wrong in the worst possible way
0:47.1	because it was in a way that means I'd miss it
0:48.9	and be late, because it's actually at 1030 this Saturday.
0:52.0	Normally, for like the rest of the campaign is going to be at
0:54.6	11 a.m. on Radio 4. Our first inaugural Premier episode is at 1030 so turn your
1:01.4	radio dials to Radio 4 at 10 29 and you'll then hear me.
1:06.0	I'm very glad that you corrected that because hopefully it means that I won't be late but you
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