Summary
The prime minister wins vote but suffers large Tory rebellion.
Adam, Chris, Vicki and Alex get together late on Monday night to talk it all through.
Today's Newscast was made by Chris Flynn. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.4 | Hello, hope you had a nice jubilee weekend. |
| 0:07.7 | Now while we were all watching the pageant on Sunday, Boris Johnson was watching it, knowing |
| 0:14.8 | that enough of his colleagues wanted rid of him and had submitted letters calling for |
| 0:19.2 | a vote of confidence in him, that there would be one. |
| 0:23.3 | And that is what is happening right now as I'm recording this at 7 o'clock on Monday |
| 0:28.9 | evening. |
| 0:29.9 | So I've popped back to Westminster just to see what it's all like. |
| 0:35.9 | Nick, hello, here's my colleague Nick Adley. |
| 0:38.5 | Hey Adam, how's it going? |
| 0:40.0 | Hey stranger, I'll let you miss that. |
| 0:41.7 | Thanks very much. |
| 0:42.7 | Did I really just see a message from you on the WhatsApp group saying Theresa May's turned |
| 0:45.4 | up in a full ball-gown? |
| 0:46.4 | It was quite a surreal moment, so we're standing, there was a queue of about 30 MPs. |
| 0:52.4 | Theresa May joins on the end in a glittering blue and silver ball-gown with very sparkly |
| 0:58.8 | silver shoes. |
| 1:00.4 | And I said, is it more fun when it's not you than she laughed heartily? |
| 1:04.6 | Oh, Robert, join me and say hello to Newscast. |
| 1:07.4 | Hello, hello. |
| 1:08.4 | How was it today going in and putting across? |
| 1:11.2 | Well, I've just tweeted that I think having won an election two years ago or just over |
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