Fight for the Right? Tories vs Reform

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Today, Sir James Cleverley has returned to the front bench after Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch reshuffled her top team.

Adam and Chris discuss the changes to the shadow cabinet and whether they will help the Conservatives in the fight for dominance of the right of British politics. Today, their opponents Reform, led by Nigel Farage announced a Tory defection at the Welsh Royal Show.

Plus, the UK government has announced a new deal with OpenAI to use AI in public services. The agreement could give the company access to government data and mean its software is used across education, defence, security and justice.

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0:20.1	Chris, hello.
0:20.9	Hi.
0:21.5	We've had an excellent entry into the newscast inbox for political and news and current affairs malapropism.
0:27.9	Oh, terrific.
0:28.8	Martha sent us this message, she said,
0:30.5	Hello, Newscast.
0:31.5	You asked in your recent episode for things that people have misheard on the news.
0:35.7	Whilst it's not mishearing, for many years, I read MOD, Ministry of Defence on a news article,
0:42.1	I always thought it meant match of the day.
0:44.9	It wasn't until recently that I realised my mistake.
0:47.5	I was very confused for a long time why match of the day were making certain announcements.
0:53.5	That's a good one, Martha.
0:54.8	I like it.
0:55.3	And I can sort of see how that could be simultaneously confusing,
0:59.0	but one of those things that isn't sufficiently kind of irritating or frequent
1:04.0	that you feel like you've got to Google it and sort it out.
1:06.5	And therefore it just sort of sits there.
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