Electioncast: Michael Gove Votes to Leave
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at Keir Starmer kicking off his party’s Scottish campaign, and Jeremy Corbyn confirming he will stand as an independent candidate in Islington North.
Plus, a surprise announcement from Michael Gove!
Adam is joined by Chris from Westminster and James from Scotland.
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 Natasha Mayo and Sam McLaren. The technical producer is Philip Bull. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, Chris. |
| 0:05.7 | Hi. |
| 0:06.7 | So our friend of the podcast who's helping us out for this episode of Newscast |
| 0:10.0 | has his own theme tune for when he comes on, but we invented this when when you were away so I'm not sure you know who it is. |
| 0:14.8 | No I don't. Name I'm struggling to place it. |
| 0:33.0 | We talk, we're talking 80s, 90s. |
| 0:34.8 | Afternoons, noughties, green peppers, red tomatoes. |
| 0:40.7 | Cooking show? |
| 0:41.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:42.2 | Yeah. Yeah. A well known instruction. Ready, sunny cook? Yes, because BBC Scotland |
| 0:48.8 | editor James Cook is here. Hello, James. Hello, Adam. |
| 0:53.0 | With his own theme tune. |
| 0:56.0 | I don't know who we pay the royalties too for that. |
| 0:58.0 | But anyway, does that mean we can't afford to have you on very often, James? |
| 1:01.0 | Anyway, I don't know. |
| 1:02.0 | I don't know. Anyway, James, we will be talking to you because |
| 1:04.2 | the election very much has been in Scotland the last few days, so we'll talk about the implications |
| 1:08.9 | of that. But just before we do, one of the other big things that's happening is Parliament is frantically |
| 1:14.3 | getting through business in this process called Wash Up. One of the things they |
| 1:18.2 | had to do was to pass the legislation that allows pubs to stay open late for the euros. Yes, that is still how Britain operates in 2024. |
| 1:27.0 | Which means we got the Conservative Pier who's the Minister responsible for this Lord Sharp using some quite unparliamentary language to explain |
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