Is Rishi Sunak Being Overshadowed?
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
After intense speculation on the future of HS2, the BBC understands the prime minister is to announce the scrapping of HS2 from West Midlands to Manchester in his closing conference speech on Wednesday. Chris joins Adam to reflect on his interview earlier in the day with Rishi Sunak.
As the Conservative Party Conference draws to a close, Henry Zeffman, the BBC's chief political correspondent, sits down with Adam to assess another busy day for the party.
And as Adam continues to work his way around Manchester, he bumps into Nigel Farage and asks whether he's planning on joining a new political party.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.2 | Hello, Conservative Party Conference continues, |
| 0:08.2 | which means episodes of newscast |
| 0:10.4 | from Conservative Party Conference continue, too. |
| 0:13.9 | The big news today, as I walked towards |
| 0:16.4 | the Conservative Party merch shop at the entrance to the event, |
| 0:20.8 | is that they've nearly sold out |
| 0:22.5 | of Keir Starmer branded flip flops. |
| 0:25.5 | That's the must-have political footwear |
| 0:27.9 | we were discussing yesterday |
| 0:30.0 | with the Conservative Party chair Greg Hans. |
| 0:32.4 | Right, let's see what we're going to discuss |
| 0:34.1 | on this episode of newscast. |
| 0:35.8 | Newscast. |
| 0:36.6 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:38.2 | Why can't people buy a house? |
| 0:40.0 | Look at their wages. |
| 0:41.2 | There are many questions on things that are not related to maths. |
| 0:43.1 | People who say that we were partying |
| 0:45.3 | simply do not know what they are talking about. |
| 0:47.5 | The era of global warming has ended, |
| 0:50.0 | the era of global boiling has arrived. |
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