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'F***ing good job'

Newscast

BBC

Politics, Daily News, News

4.36.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Politics is back in Westminster with an almighty bang.

A hot-mic moment lands the education secretary in hot water as Sir Keir Starmer shuffles his shadow cabinet. Adam and Chris dissect the day’s events.

Adam is also joined by former Labour foreign secretary, now chief executive of the International Rescue Committee, David Miliband to discuss Ukraine.

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Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by George Dabby with Hayley Clarke, Cordelia Hemming and Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Ben Andrews. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.0

Hello, is this on?

0:06.5

Hello, is this on?

0:07.8

Hello? Oh, yeah, oh, yes, it's always good to check

0:10.4

if it's recording, isn't it, Chris?

0:12.3

Oh, it is.

0:13.5

You're never alone with a microphone.

0:15.2

A lesson learned today by the education secretary,

0:17.7

Jillian Keegan, who was speaking to ITV News,

0:20.6

that got to the end of the interview,

0:21.8

which was about Kelsa Prue's rack-irated concrete.

0:26.2

And then she must have thought the cameras weren't rolling

0:28.9

and the microphones weren't recording, and she said this.

0:31.0

And every single one of them will be done.

0:33.4

OK, thank you very much.

0:35.0

Thank you. Thank you.

0:40.2

Does anyone ever say, you know what?

0:42.3

You've done a f***** good job, because everyone else

0:44.2

has sat on their f***** and done nothing.

0:46.2

No signs of that, no?

0:48.6

First of all, you know what, Chris,

0:49.8

what's the ethics of us as broadcasters

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