Summary
Tory right-wingers are getting worried about the direction of Rishi Sunak’s government. Boris Johnson’s spin doctor at Number 10, Guto Harri, tells Adam and Chris why some still support the ex-PM and what it was like listening in to his calls with President Zelensky. Radio 2’s Scott Mills spills the beans on how Eurovision went in Liverpool, plus MP Andrea Jenkyns sings us a special rendition of Sweden’s winning song. And as a new exam season starts, the BBC’s education editor, Branwen Jeffreys, answers whether we’re finally back to normal after the pandemic. You may begin… Today’s Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming and Chris Mason. It was made by Daniel Wittenberg with Chloe Desave, Ben Carter and Joe Wallace. The technical producer was Sam Dickinson. The news editor was Damon Rose.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello Chris. Hello. |
| 0:06.4 | Did you spend more time watching all these conservative conferences |
| 0:10.8 | that have been happening this weekend or Eurovision? |
| 0:12.8 | It was probably about the same. |
| 0:17.6 | But the conferences came in two chunks with a being one in Bournemouth |
| 0:20.4 | and then one that started in London on Monday and running through to Wednesday. |
| 0:24.0 | As opposed to the kind of, you know, for our back-to-back fest of Poland |
| 0:28.1 | for the by-twit-slander, whatever it was. |
| 0:30.0 | So, yeah, I'd say roughly equal, although I reckon the viewing figures |
| 0:34.0 | will be marginally smaller for the two conservative conferences. |
| 0:37.0 | I think so. I think so. Yeah. |
| 0:38.9 | So we've decided to smush the two together, though, |
| 0:41.2 | because the conservative democratic organisation |
| 0:44.3 | who were the outfit that were having their meeting in Bournemouth over the weekend |
| 0:48.3 | started things off with a rendition of the national anthem. |
| 0:51.3 | Oh, yeah. And they got a conservative celebrity to do it. |
| 0:54.0 | The MP Andrea Jenkins, who is actually a former opera singer, |
| 0:58.4 | and this is how it sounded. |
| 1:16.0 | I love to know who was on the Glockenspiel. |
| 1:17.6 | Anyway, we got in touch with Andrea Jenkins' MP |
| 1:21.1 | and asked her to do her own cover version |
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