Is Rishi Sunak facing a Rebellion on Rwanda?

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. Today, we look at what’s happening with the plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. Conservative MPs met throughout the day to discuss the plan ahead of crunch vote for Rishi Sunak.

Adam is joined by Chris Mason and former No10 communications director Craig Oliver.

Meanwhile, the Prime Minister spent the day giving evidence to the Covid inquiry and defended the Eat Out to Help Out scheme. Adam speaks with BBC Health Reporter Jim Reed.

You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Cordeilia Hemming and Bella Saltiel. The technical producer was Dafydd Evans. 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	The newscast studio at BBC Broadcasting House has had a major glow up, but Chris is in the old
0:10.5	studio in Westminster, so I'm going to have to use words to describe it to you.
0:14.3	Did you just use the phrase glow up? I did. Do you know what that is? I have no idea.
0:18.2	You can guess though, can you?
0:19.4	Upgrade. Oh, yeah, so much more than that.
0:23.0	Oh, the theatre of the mind and all that, go and paint as a picture.
0:27.0	So the BBC is famously for having just awful, awful carpets. We've actually got a very jazzy, quite light, almost like alpiney carpets.
0:35.8	Oh lovely, my favourite.
0:37.0	Then there's like a big sofa and then two chairs which are very much kind of like
0:42.0	mad men styley.
0:44.4	Then we've ditched the famous headset and microphone sets
0:48.7	which make it look like you're bringing a plane into land.
0:51.4	Now I have these very snazzy headphones that are see through and go into my ears.
0:56.1	Very snazzy. And the microphones are like microphones you'd get like in a recording studio.
1:00.5	Any coffee stains yet? Not yet because I've only been in it for about 25 minutes.
1:04.6	And you know me... I turn up. You know me I never have coffee after 3 p.m. And we're recording this episode of
1:10.6	newscast at 624. But Piester resistance apart from the lovely
1:14.4	wood effect paneling on the walls and the artificial plants which my
1:18.6	tick-talk design things tell me bring life to a room is the giant TV screen that I'm looking at you on?
1:25.0	Oh no.
1:26.0	I'm not sure that's an improvement.
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