Electioncast: Sunak v Starmer (Part 2)

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at the Sky News leaders’ event where the two main party leaders were quizzed on their plans for government.

Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer were interviewed by Beth Rigby before facing questions from the studio audience. The Labour leader was grilled on tax rises whilst the prime minister faced tough questions on the NHS and immigration.

Adam is joined by former Conservative adviser Jo Tanner and former Labour adviser Tom Hamilton.

And the Green Party launched their manifesto with a focus on taxing the wealthy to pay for the NHS and housing. 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 Hannah Montgomery. 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	Hello, loads to get through on this episode of newscast,
0:07.0	because lots has happened today.
0:08.2	Another party has launched a manifesto,
0:10.4	and there's been another televised leadership event, this on Sky News where it was Starmer and Sunak in Grimsby a
0:16.7	combination of questions from Beth Rigby the political editor of Sky News and a very well informed and quite spiky audience all to be
0:26.2	discussed on newscast.
0:28.2	Newscast from the BBC.
0:30.2	People do call me the show Jenny Let.
0:32.2	Holing day will be on Thursday the 4th of July.
0:35.0	No way.
0:37.0	Thank God about town.
0:38.0	It's going to be a very long six weeks.
0:40.0	I was ringing my underpants out
0:42.0	so that you're suddenly in Downing Street.
0:43.0	Campaigns can feel very long and you voters can be a volatile bunch.
0:48.0	Hello, it's Adam in the studio and Chris is in Grimsby.
0:51.0	Yeah, hello, I am in a van. Right now Adam, it's what quarter past 20 past
0:55.8	10 at night and Camera Journalist Supremo Jack is reversing a van with about zero zero real visibility.
1:06.0	As we make our way out of the car park of the place in Grimsby
1:12.0	where Sky News have just done their leaders special
1:16.2	with Rischi Sunak and Kistarma.
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