Electioncast: The Lib Dem Manifesto

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BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at the Liberal Democrat manifesto launch, and the first of a series of BBC leadership interviews - starting with Rishi Sunak.

Speaking at a launch in London Lib Dem leader, Ed Davey, called it a “manifesto to save the NHS” and pledged an £8bn package for health and care services in England. Davey also faced questions on the party’s stance on Europe.

Plus, in the first of a series of interviews with party leaders, Nick Robinson speaks to Rishi Sunak. To discuss it all Adam and Chris are joined by Vicki Young, deputy political editor.

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 Elliot Ryder 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, Vicky.
0:06.3	Hello?
0:07.3	Hello?
0:08.3	I was like the Eurovision scores.
0:11.0	She's only in Westminster.
0:12.0	I was just down the road.
0:13.0	Have we come up with a name for this week yet?
0:15.0	Because it's when nearly all the big parties are launching their
0:18.0	manifestos.
0:19.0	Well, yeah, I suppose to that end it's sort of manifesto week, isn it? I mean not all it's not very
0:25.2	jazzy. You have been doing this for three weeks though. Week three.
0:27.6	How about how about how about week three? Oh there you go, yeah. Oh, that's gonna put in the punters.
0:35.0	The manifest... I can't know, I've been thinking about it all day, I just can't come up with a
0:39.3	catchy name for it, but we've basically got... Today we had the Liberal Democrats watching theirs
0:43.1	Tuesday it's the Conservatives Wednesday it's the Green Party of England and Wales and
0:46.5	Thursday it's labour when does that mean the SMP are doing theirs that's next
0:50.0	week it's the middle of next week I think it's a week on Wednesday I think.
0:53.4	Well on this episode of newscast we will talk about the PM's big interview he's done with
0:57.7	Nick Robinson, the first proper like sit-down of a party leader being grilled
1:01.0	for half an hour but I think we'll start off where the day started with the Lib Dem manifesto launch.
1:06.0	A little bit of trivia for you though that I will answer at the end of this episode.
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