Homes Under The Starmer?

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Today, we hear who’s in - and who’s out - of the new Labour government and unpack Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ first speech from the Treasury.

As MP’s arrive for their first day in office, Adam and Chris talk about Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's visit to the four nations plus the latest list of Labour’s ministerial appointments.

And Faisal has been at the Treasury listening to Chancellor Rachel Reeves lay out her plan for economic growth.

Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Miranda Slade with Sam McLaren and Gemma Roper. The assistant editor is Ben Mundy. The technical producer was Jonny Hall. The editor is Sam Bonham.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:05.0	The opening of this episode of newscast comes from the train on the way to work,
0:11.0	as a little homage to the more than 300 new MPs heading to
0:15.8	Westminster today all of whom seem to have tweeted their train journeys and
0:20.2	how excited they are and some of them discovering how badly connected their constituencies actually are to London by the rail network.
0:27.0	Everyone's been saying about how it feels like the first day of school.
0:30.0	So I also went and did a careers talk at my friend's son's school today as well just to sort of double the metaphor up.
0:37.0	Anyway, plenty more to discuss on this episode of Newscast.
0:40.0	Newscast.
0:41.0	Newscast.
0:42.0	Newscast from the BBC.
0:45.0	Hello it's Adam now in the newscast studio.
0:50.0	And it is Chris at Westminster and for the first time in quite a while feeling like it is the place to be
0:54.5	Whereas when I was here during the campaign I had sort of itchy feet to be back out on the road
0:58.1	It was very weird walking past Westminster the few times I was there during the campaign and just you could hear
1:03.3	that you could literally hear the tumbleweed yeah the power left basically and
1:07.2	now it's come back that's that's the nature of a campaign and then it's aftermath
1:10.5	isn't it? I've just been tossing up the numbers of MPs after I did my
1:13.5	little voice note on the train and according to the House of Commons Library 300
1:17.8	MPs of 650 were re-elected so coming back yeah 335 were candidates who successfully became MPs for the
1:27.7	first time leaving 15 who are retreads as in people who were MPs, then had a gap and are now back.
1:36.2	Yeah, in other words, a majority of MPs are arriving for the very first time,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.