Electioncast Results: What's in Labour’s In Tray?

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🗓️ 7 July 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Today, now that the election dust has settled, what challenges do the new Labour government face in their first few days?

One issue that is already demanding Labour’s attention is the Tata Steelworks in Port Talbot in South Wales, with thousands of jobs currently at risk.

And, the Conservatives are in search of a new leader. Potential contenders, Victoria Atkins and Robert Jenrick spoke to Laura this morning. Are they putting their names in the hat? And who is being touted as a potential caretaker leader?

Plus, Henry channels his inner Steve Rosenberg by sharing his ability on the piano! 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 Josh Jenkins. The technical producer was Riccardo McCarthy . The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Hi everybody.
0:05.8	Hello, we've survived.
0:07.2	Sorry, Henry, I spoke over you at the beginning.
0:09.3	How rude!
0:10.8	Chaos under a Labour government. It's a coalition of Chaosless podcast.
0:15.0	Wouldn't be the first time.
0:17.0	Let's start today with a question from a newscaster called
0:21.0	Imme.
0:22.0	Dear newscast, now the election is over and the new parliament will be sworn in
0:24.6	When does business as usual return to Westminster if I were to contact my new MP when could I expect a response kind regards in may what a great question
0:32.3	Henry then when does it get
0:33.4	to act to business as usual? Well some of the new MPs are already arriving in
0:37.6	Parliament. There was a member of Parliamentary staff at every single count ready
0:42.4	to hand over an envelope with sort of basically
0:45.2	new starter information for whoever won that sort of thing and ever since then they've
0:51.3	been able to arrive at Parliament where there's a team ready to greet them.
0:55.0	I think they're in practical terms, it takes a little while for their email to be set up,
1:00.0	which is the way in which you would perhaps most often contact an MP. If you send them a letter
1:05.3	it will get to them eventually but they won't have offices yet. That's one of the most
1:10.4	political things that happens in Westminster is the allocation of offices.
1:15.5	And in the Labour Party, it's the responsibility of a man called Mark Tami, who has been a labor whip continuously since I think 2007, and I assume is going
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