Electioncast: What’s Going On With Diane Abbott!?
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at the confusion around whether Diane Abbott can stand as a Labour candidate in the general election. Keir Starmer has denied Diane Abbott has been barred from standing for the party, but Abbott told the BBC she has in fact been stopped from standing. Adam and Alex are joined by Newsnight’s Nick Watt to try and get to the bottom of what has happened with the veteran Labour MP.
Meanwhile Chris Mason has been travelling with the Prime Minister in the South West of England and joins the pod.
And, Marianna Spring is in the studio to talk about how the political parties are using social media to target voters on TikTok.
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 Mike Regaard . 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 | Political correspondent Alex Versailles here. |
| 0:06.7 | Oh, she's tapping away. |
| 0:07.8 | Is that social call or what? |
| 0:09.9 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:10.9 | All right, sorry, sorry to interrupt. |
| 0:12.6 | I'm sorry, it was a station call, but now I'm in the game. |
| 0:15.8 | And Nick Watt, political editor of, |
| 0:17.5 | am I calling it Election News Night now? |
| 0:19.5 | Because that's what you called it last night. |
| 0:20.6 | Yeah, nightly Election News Night, how's that? |
| 0:22.2 | Okay, well, welcome back. We've finally |
| 0:24.5 | got details from ITV of their first prime ministerial debate. It's going to be on |
| 0:28.0 | Tuesday at 9 p.m. which gives us a short brief window to discuss our favorite election debate moments. |
| 0:34.6 | Alex. |
| 0:35.6 | My personal favorite memory of one of the election night debates was I was on the campaign |
| 0:39.0 | trail and this would have been 2015 and we were all staying in a random hotel in a |
| 0:45.2 | seafront somewhere and the whole election team got around to watch the first |
| 0:49.4 | debate with like wine and cheese which's so civilized because we weren't |
| 0:53.7 | covering it because we were just watching it so just watching it for enjoyment |
| 0:57.1 | literally for kicks yeah if for fun it was great well clearly the wisest line that has ever |
| 1:02.2 | been said in any television election debate. |
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