Is there a 'conspiracy of silence' over spending cuts?
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4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The Conservatives and Labour have been accused of a "conspiracy of silence" over the scale of spending cuts or tax rises by an influential think tank.
Tough decisions would need to be made following the next election, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said.
A day after the Budget, Adam and Chris ask Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride what that would mean if the Conservatives won it.
We also ask if it’s right for the public to pay for the government’s legal fees generated after Science Secretary Michelle Donelan falsely suggested an academic backed Hamas.
And - after Rishi Sunak revealed his dishwasher stacking habits to Grazia magazine, we ask a former features editor of Vogue and political communication strategist the art of the non political interview with politicians.
Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming and Chris Mason. It was made by Chris Flynn with Gemma Roper. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Chris, we've got a Cabinet Minister to keep us company this episode. |
| 0:07.6 | Yes. |
| 0:08.6 | Mel Stride, working Pension Secretary. |
| 0:09.6 | Hello? |
| 0:10.6 | Good evening, Adam. |
| 0:11.6 | And I'm impressed, you've got a crib sheet there already start taking notes already |
| 0:14.7 | Well, I've only written about three things down |
| 0:17.8 | Because we don't start it. I promise it will be full |
| 0:20.3 | Yeah, then we'll mark your homework |
| 0:21.6 | The event will mark your homework like a human version of the OPR |
| 0:26.0 | as if. |
| 0:27.0 | I've got to ask you the big question that has become the classic political interview question |
| 0:31.0 | this week after the Prime Minister's interview with Gratia, do you make your own bed? |
| 0:35.0 | No. I do. But I do load the dishwasher. |
| 0:40.0 | I do walk the dog and as Mrs May would approve I do take the bins out because that is a man's job so I do that as well and I hear you listen to lots of political |
| 0:48.7 | podcasts while you're walking the dog I love podcasts but I must welcome home yeah original Yeah. Yeah. I know I'm the old one. I mean what better. Yeah, no I listen to loads and loads of them and I listen to them when I take the dog out. |
| 0:59.0 | And Chris, I want to know what you thought about that seeing the Prime Minister talking about an unmade bed after you had been talking to the nation about your |
| 1:05.5 | unmade bed in that in that Premier Inn the other day. Yeah I should explain to newscasters and to Mel who may not have caught that particular |
| 1:11.7 | newscast that's about a fortnight ago was it in I was in wellingborough |
| 1:15.8 | so I was covering the by election in wellingborough and I'd woken up at about five in the morning |
| 1:20.0 | to write a piece for the today program and all the rest of it and we were doing a newscast that was live on the I play at 7 o'clock in the morning and I'm in a budget hotel and I got out of bed and went to the little desk and was the |
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