Is The Government about to break a manifesto pledge?
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4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Paddy and Laura discuss the possibility of a potential breach of the Labour manifesto in their upcoming budget
Meanwhile the Prime Minister pledges support for Ukraine in Berlin and, with the Novichok inquiry underway, Laura presses the Russian Ambassador to the UK on Russia’s role in the Salisbury poisonings.
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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Paddy O’Connell and Laura Kuenssberg. It was made by Rufus Gray with Bella Saltiel. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | I've never seen such a large chandelier as I'm looking in the newscast inbox. |
| 0:08.6 | I saw the biggest chandelier I think I've ever seen in my life yesterday. |
| 0:12.3 | Where is this chandelier from? |
| 0:14.0 | This enormous chandelier is in the residence of the Russian ambassador, Andre Kellen. |
| 0:18.0 | And I went to interview him yesterday and the interview will be shown on BBC 1 at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, but along with the parallel universe of speaking to a representative of the The chandeliers hanging from the ceiling is sort of the size of a mini car. |
| 0:47.0 | It's an extraordinary sort of sensation just even to go to a place like that |
| 0:52.0 | entering into the most sort of rarefied diplomatic |
| 0:55.3 | quarters of a country that is isolated. |
| 1:00.1 | So you know going to embassies, going to residences, normally you'd go in and it's sort of quite friendly and yes |
| 1:05.2 | lovely to see the BBC here you come and you go and you speak to people often for you know |
| 1:10.5 | briefings and conversations or you going for an interview and it's all |
| 1:14.5 | very sort of welcoming going into an embassy where there are very difficult |
| 1:19.6 | relationships between the two countries is quite a sensation. |
| 1:23.2 | Even the furniture is designed to project power. |
| 1:25.9 | Completely. |
| 1:26.9 | Yeah, I mean this it's got disadvantage of the revolution isn't it the Russian |
| 1:30.2 | revolution they got rid of the royal family and they've got lots of really good buildings. They've rid of the royal family. |
| 1:32.6 | And they've got lots of really good buildings. |
| 1:34.2 | They've got all the buildings and Putin loves to project the mini-ZAR feeling and |
| 1:38.0 | you're getting it off the ambassador. |
| 1:39.3 | So it's a scoop and we'll also talk about the budget because that's all anyone ever talks about now in this Saturday edition of newscast |
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