Summary
Thousands of passengers caught up in half-term flight chaos.
Adam discusses the delays and cancellations with Newscaster Anna Saunders and Rory Boland from Which?.
And mathematician, Dr Hannah Fry talks to Adam about her new BBC documentary, "Making Sense of Cancer".
Today’s Newscast was made by Tim Walklate, with Alix Pickles, Miranda Slade and Clare Williamson. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, I've just got home after recording the latest episode of newscast, and it's quarter |
| 0:09.2 | to eight on Tuesday evening, and there's a bit of breaking party gate news. |
| 0:13.8 | And it's that Lord Geight, who is Boris Johnson's administrative standards adviser, has written |
| 0:19.1 | his annual report, and there's a section in there on party gate. |
| 0:22.8 | And as far as kind of Lord Geight pronouncements go, this one is quite strongly worded, and |
| 0:28.0 | it seems that he is quite annoyed in a very Lord Geight-like way that Boris Johnson hasn't |
| 0:33.8 | explicitly explained to the public why he hasn't broken the ministerial code, which is |
| 0:39.2 | kind of the rule book for how Prime Minister's and Ministers are meant to behave. |
| 0:42.8 | And so here's a little quote where he says, the questions around Mr. Johnson's behaviour |
| 0:47.1 | led to quote an impression that Prime Minister may be unwilling to have his own conduct |
| 0:51.6 | judged against the ministerial code, and then he goes on, it would be especially difficult |
| 0:56.0 | to inspire that trust in the ministerial code if any Prime Minister, whose code it is, |
| 1:01.1 | declines to refer to it. |
| 1:03.5 | So pretty wordy, very mandarinny, very sort of former private secretary to the Queen, which |
| 1:10.0 | is what Lord Geight is, but make no mistake, that's him being annoyed. |
| 1:15.2 | And Boris Johnson is written back saying that he's made his case, he's apologized, he |
| 1:19.9 | thought he was following the rules at the whole time, and he didn't realise that he should |
| 1:24.7 | have to sort of respond in this way in relation to the ministerial code. |
| 1:30.7 | Also some other party gate news on Tuesday night, Keir Starmer, the Labour leader and Angela |
| 1:35.2 | Reiner, the deputy Labour leader have received questionnaires from Durham police who are investigating |
| 1:40.6 | that accusation that they brought the lockdown rules with the famous beer and curry in Durham. |
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