Electioncast: Rwanda... Slogans… and No Farage!
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at Rishi Sunak confirming that no deportation flights to Rwanda will set off before the general election. Plus Nigel Farage says he will not run to be a MP.
It had been thought that the government would try to get the first flight off the ground to Rwanda before the election on 4th of July. Sunak has now said they will go ahead “If i’m re-elected”. Labour has pledged to scrap the plan if it wins power.
And, Nigel Farage has announced he will not stand in the general election. In a statement on X, Farage said he would still “do my bit to help” Reform UK.
To reflect on the opening day of the campaign, Adam and Chris are joined by political editor for Newsnight Nick Watt and BBC chief economics correspondent Dharshini David.
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 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. |
| 0:04.7 | Chris, I've invited in some friends of the pod for tonight's episode. |
| 0:07.8 | Excellent. |
| 0:08.3 | Darshini and Nick are here. |
| 0:09.7 | Welcome. |
| 0:10.3 | Well, to welcome me, I was going to ask you, |
| 0:11.6 | do you have any little tricks of the trade of maybe things you take out on the road with you |
| 0:15.5 | to ease your life as a hardworking reporter? |
| 0:18.8 | Cribes sheets? |
| 0:20.6 | You never know? |
| 0:21.3 | Facts. |
| 0:22.0 | Facts. |
| 0:23.0 | I was going to say jelly babies, but that doesn't really compare to it. |
| 0:26.0 | Oh, like when you're doing a marathon. |
| 0:27.1 | Yeah, just to keep you going. |
| 0:29.1 | That is an OBR spreadsheet office. |
| 0:31.4 | Oh, the office of budget. |
| 0:32.3 | They're quite big, though. |
| 0:33.2 | There's OPR books. |
| 0:34.1 | You know what I decided I needed to take on this campaign. |
| 0:36.8 | Interesting. From the getting soaked in Downing Street experience the other day, a pencil. Because when it's |
| 0:42.8 | really pouring down, pens don't work and you can't type into a phone because there's loads |
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