Industial Action Man
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Adam, Chris and Alex question the general secretary of the RMT union, Mick Lynch, about the next round of rail strikes.
They also look back on the careers of Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss and bring up a couple of moments the candidates for PM might prefer to forget.
This edition of Newscast was made by Chris Flynn. The assistant editor was Alison Gee. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Can I do a little bit of promotional work? |
| 0:07.2 | OK. |
| 0:07.9 | So you know I'm doing this series called Boris Available, |
| 0:10.4 | the podcast of BBC Science, which is looking at Boris Johnson's life |
| 0:14.0 | in various chapters. |
| 0:14.9 | Well, what's amazing is that I could probably start |
| 0:17.3 | making the next series about the next Prime Minister now, |
| 0:20.4 | because there are so many amazing archive clips of Rishi Sunak |
| 0:23.8 | and Liz Truss, because they've just come of age and an era |
| 0:27.2 | where everything's filmed all the time. |
| 0:28.6 | It is the joy of having like social media and the digital platforms. |
| 0:32.2 | We've got all that embarrassing stuff on them. |
| 0:33.8 | And it means you can see Liz Truss at a Lib Dem party conference |
| 0:36.6 | when she was a Lib Dem. |
| 0:37.8 | Very passionately arguing, using some of the weird, |
| 0:41.5 | same little voice ticks about abolishing the royal family. |
| 0:45.6 | We asked them their opinion of the monarchy. |
| 0:48.2 | Do you know what they said? |
| 0:49.6 | They said abolish them. |
| 0:51.4 | We've had enough. |
| 0:52.4 | APPLAUSE |
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