How To Interview A Prime Minister
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Laura’s preparing for an interview with Rishi Sunak on Sunday. She and Paddy are joined by political journalist and documentary maker Michael Cockerell, who’s interviewed nearly every prime minister from 1963 onwards.
And, the government is facing another by-election after Tory MP Chris Skidmore announced he’ll be resigning earlier than already planned.
Laura also talks about documents she’s seen showing Rishi Sunak’s doubts over the Rwanda scheme while he was chancellor.
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Today's Newscast was presented by Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell. It was made by Chris Flynn with Clare Williamson. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Happy New Year. |
| 0:05.6 | Happy New Year, we're back together. |
| 0:07.5 | We are. |
| 0:08.5 | Happy New Year. |
| 0:09.5 | And happy New Year, especially to weekend new casters because it is going to be an election year. |
| 0:13.2 | Oh da da da da da da da da da da da da da. |
| 0:15.6 | I feel I've heard a lot about that already. |
| 0:18.6 | But already we've had another concert of MP say he'll resign with the by-election that's already happened. |
| 0:24.0 | That's right Chris Kiddmore. Seat is Kingswood on the outskirts of Bristol, |
| 0:27.6 | Labour fancy their chances. So it's a conveyor belt of Tories sort of trying to conduct a small |
| 0:31.9 | painful general election of their own. |
| 0:34.7 | You've got the Prime Minister coming in? |
| 0:36.1 | I do. |
| 0:37.1 | Tomorrow morning 9 o'clock BBC 1. |
| 0:38.4 | I have to say that I'm jealous. |
| 0:40.4 | It's like that phrase from Gorvedale every time a friend of mine succeeds a little bit of me dying |
| 0:45.6 | I'm great timing jealous but so honest yes I can't hide it charming and some sticky questions perhaps for Rishi Sun out tomorrow about a story we've done today |
| 0:54.7 | about his views of the Rwanda plan when he was Chancellor. We'll talk a bit more about that in a moment. |
| 0:59.7 | But also we were going to talk about Prime Ministerial interviews and who better to have with us and I'm very |
| 1:04.9 | excited to say this because an enormous hero of mine. Michael Cockroll, the legendary political |
| 1:10.4 | documentary maker who's with us. |
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