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Electioncast Results: A New Labour Government

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.46.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Today we look at the new members of the Labour government.

Adam, Chris and Paddy look at Sir Keir Starmer’s cabinet appointments including the unexpected addition of James Timpson and Sir Patrick Vallance.

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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming, Chris Mason and Paddy O’Connell. It was made by Miranda Slade with Gemma Roper. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:05.0

Hello, we're here for the third episode of newscast on this momentous day after the UK general election 2024,

0:11.0

and I have to start with saying sorry oh this is almost like

0:14.8

Rishi Sunak's departure speech but my version of it in the lunchtime episode of

0:19.3

newscast I suggested no actually just said that Liz Truss had lost her seat to the Lib Dems.

0:26.2

It was actually to labour obviously, wasn't it?

0:28.9

But it was in the end, but the key thing was she lost her seat.

0:32.1

So I was right about that and then my analysis was actually spot on even if I do say so myself.

0:37.0

It was just the crucial fact was wrong.

0:40.0

Anyway, happy to correct, happy to correct, I believe in transparency.

0:43.4

Chris is here and also Chris I love in poetic fashion

0:47.0

you've ended where you began the selection

0:49.7

with wet pants.

0:51.0

Yeah, I have, yes, I am something of a meteorological punchline.

0:55.6

I've just returned from Downing Street at 7 o'clock on Friday night and it's got into my

1:02.0

socks this time. I can feel it in the kind of well of my foot shoe thing.

1:07.6

And yeah I'm just I'm soaked through again basically yeah.

1:11.6

It is July for goodness it you know but pompous people like

1:14.9

me at moments like this say the political weather has changed well it flipping hasn't

1:19.2

it's just as bad as it was with the previous government.

1:23.2

You look completely and utterly drenched, but what I love about this and if I may say you, is that

1:28.8

you're a man who doesn't believe in an umbrella and I respect that about you. I'm not a great fan of umbrellas. I think they sort of reek of impracticality. They do.

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