Electioncast: The Big BBC Debate (Analysis!)

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BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at the first BBC election debate, where leading figures from the seven main parties take part. Presented by Mishal Husain the representatives of the parties take questions from the studio audience, and challenge each other over the course of 90 minutes. The line-up in full;

Conservative Party: Penny Mordaunt

Labour Party: Angela Rayner

Scottish National Party: Stephen Flynn

Liberal Democrats: Daisy Cooper

Green Party: Carla Denyer

Reform Party: Nigel Farage

Plaid Cymru: Rhun ap Iorwerth 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. The technical producer was Dafydd Evans. 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, it's Friday night, so of course I'm at work, but it's for quite an exciting reason
0:09.9	the BBC's having its first televised debate of the 2024 general election and it's happening
0:16.7	in my office, Broadcasting House in the West End of London, which is slightly weird because
0:20.8	it means on the way in you see all the people who are going out for big nights out.
0:24.9	I'm thinking maybe they won't be watching.
0:26.8	Anyway, here on the ground floor next to the main entrance,
0:30.0	what's normally a cafe is the spin room.
0:32.7	So there are journalists from all the different broadcasters
0:36.6	and podcasters and the newspapers kind of milling around
0:41.0	waiting for it to start.
0:42.1	In fact, I can see one of our, I wouldn't say rival,
0:45.0	and companion podcasts from a newspaper they're recording an episode right now and there's loads of
0:51.0	pundits that you'd recognize from politics over the years sitting,
0:55.5	waiting for it to get started.
0:57.1	It gets started at 730.
0:59.1	There's seven people here from the seven main parties although not every party is
1:04.3	sent their leader so no Rishi Sunac no Ed Davy and no Kirs Starmer but no shortage
1:10.1	of news because of course this is taking place against the backdrop of Rishi Sunak
1:15.3	bailing out of the D-Day commemorations early on Thursday which has just turned
1:19.8	into a huge story throughout the day but just remember with this event this is not kind of
1:25.3	like an interview with seven people about the news it's also kind of a way of
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