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Electioncast: Starmer Uses the L Word

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BBC

Politics, Daily News, News

4.36.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at Starmer accusing Sunak of lying in last night’s debate, and the vote of no confidence in Vaughan Gething, the first minister of Wales.

As the dust settles from last night’s debate, Adam, Chris and Alex focus on Rishi Sunak’s claim that Labour plans would mean a £2,000 tax rise for voters. And, we look at the caring plan revealed by the Liberal Democrats.

Plus, after a dramatic day in the Senedd, Adam is joined by Gareth Lewis, political editor of BBC Wales 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 Gemma Roper and Sam Mclaren. The technical producer was Philip Bull. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:04.7

Now obviously we will do the political fallout from Tuesday night's

0:07.9

first televised leaders debate amongst the people who could be Prime Minister

0:11.0

because there was a Scottish one on one day.

0:13.2

But before we do that, give me the planes, trains and automobiles behind the scenes.

0:18.0

Because you were all in Salford.

0:19.6

We were on in Salford.

0:20.6

Like every political journalist in Britain minus me.

0:23.0

You were missed.

0:24.0

I was here in my living room.

0:25.0

You were missed.

0:26.0

It was this kind of like slow trickle of like people rocking up in different parts of

0:30.0

solver at different times, all having got various trains to get there and I think I bumped into Chris in

0:36.4

Solford in the reception of a hotel

0:39.2

very late at night and there was a sort of boom from crack

0:42.8

Alex Chris what on earth you're doing here while we know what just didn't

0:45.8

weirdly expect paths across but then the worst bit was the getting back

0:49.0

from Salford this morning right Chris it was a bit tricky

0:51.9

so the trains on the

0:52.8

as I said the West Coast Main Line but it's kind of the line between

0:55.9

Manchester and London were the spouse I think basically but at least a lot of

1:00.5

them were. So but but you, you know,

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