Has The UK Softened Russia Oil Sanctions?
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Today, the government announced a watering down of Russian oil sanctions as fuel prices rise from Iran war.
Adam is joined by Chris and Faisal to discuss that, as well as the cut in fuel duty and Wes Streeting’s resignation speech in the House of Commons.
And Emma Pinchbeck, CEO of the Climate Change Committee, speaks to Adam about a new report on climate adaptation in the UK.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:06.4 | Chris, it's time for a team meeting. |
| 0:08.3 | Oh, right, okay, right, okay. |
| 0:09.7 | We're launching a new mini-series called, |
| 0:13.6 | imaginatively, by-election cast. |
| 0:16.7 | Oh, right, well, that's a good idea. |
| 0:19.6 | Good idea. |
| 0:20.3 | That's Faisal laughing because he's managed to work out what it might be about. Yes, with so much focus on a by-election, well, in fact, two by-elections happening, we're going to do weekly episodes and maybe even more of bi-election. Oh, yeah. There's three of them, yeah. Of bi-election. Well, I mean, I haven't started by-election cast yet, so this is a good kind of |
| 0:37.5 | preparation, isn't it? But, Chris, we need to make some classic trademark newscast opening titles |
| 0:44.4 | with the clips and the music. So when I count to three, if you could just say in your classic |
| 0:50.1 | Chris Mason voice, Makerfield, blimey. Yeah? |
| 0:54.6 | Okay. |
| 0:55.1 | This is how the sausage is made. |
| 0:56.6 | We will get recording. |
| 0:57.8 | I mean, I hope we're recording anyway, because this is the podcast. |
| 1:00.4 | So one, two, three. |
| 1:03.4 | Makerfield, blimey. |
| 1:06.0 | Oh, bravo. |
| 1:07.7 | And you will hear Chris saying that multiple, multiple times in the new opening titles of our new mini-series by-election cast, which will be landing in your feeds on Friday. But now it's time for a plain old vanilla newscast. |
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| 1:26.6 | Nostalgia will not bring back the old |
| 1:29.0 | order. Six-seven. Yeah. It's supposed to be me as a doctor. There he has also a special |
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