How Do You Fix the UK's Housing Crisis?
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The Conservatives first promised to end the right of landlords to evict tenants without a reason in 2019.
Now, five years later, the Housing Secretary reveals on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that it’ll become law in time for this year’s election.
Paddy has been speaking to Post Office campaigner Alan Bates after it was revealed that Fujitsu UK paid its top executives more than £26m in the 25 years since the controversial Horizon contract with the Post Office started.
And, we hear from Ralph Fiennes who spoke to Laura about why he isn’t a fan of trigger warnings in the theatre.
Today's Newscast was presented by Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell. It was made by George Dabby with Josh Jenkins. The technical producer was Ricardo McCarthy. The senior news editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Now yesterday, newscasters, we threatened to tell you what we were doing when we were |
| 0:08.9 | 27, because... |
| 0:10.9 | Because there's the youngest peer being appointed from Clyde. |
| 0:14.4 | Yes. |
| 0:14.9 | She's 27. |
| 0:16.2 | Carmen Smith. |
| 0:17.2 | She's got an amazing life story actually. |
| 0:19.2 | The 27 doesn't sum it up. |
| 0:20.3 | She was a sole carer for her dad who had dementia she's done a lot she got a lot of |
| 0:26.1 | rubber on the road this young person and she says she's always wanted to go to the Lords |
| 0:30.3 | although she doesn't believe in it she thinks it's better to be in there. |
| 0:34.0 | Fighting for Plachimery and for Wales, I think she'll be only the second Plachimery Pier, which is an interesting thing. |
| 0:39.5 | Anyway, before we delve into what Carmen Smith is going to do and before we delve into the rest of today's |
| 0:43.4 | newscast, Patty what were you doing when you were 27? |
| 0:46.4 | Well, 27 was a massive year for me because I went to live in New York on a risky thing. |
| 0:52.0 | That's so exciting. It was very exciting, It was life changing. It was the right thing to do. |
| 0:55.4 | 27 was a great year for me. What was the risky thing? No, we're just going. I had to give up a job, |
| 1:00.9 | my flat my car, that sort of thing. |
| 1:02.6 | Amazing Henry. |
| 1:04.3 | Well, like Carmen Smith, I was hanging around Westminster, |
| 1:07.9 | albeit in slightly less illustrious parts of the parliamentary state, |
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