Keir Starmer?s Maggie Thatcher Splash

Newscast

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Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The Labour leader has said the former Tory leader effected "meaningful change? in the Sunday Telegraph. Paddy?s been speaking to him about why.

Also, as we head into the winter, Laura has been talking to the Health Secretary Victoria Atkins about whether the NHS is ready.

Today's Newscast was presented by Laura Kuenssberg, Paddy O?Connell and Henry Zeffman. It was made by Chris Flynn with Beth Ashmead Latham. The technical producer was Ricardo McCarthy. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:04.7	Well, I had an unexpected guest.
0:06.3	That's exciting. Who was it?
0:07.8	Sir Kier Stama.
0:08.8	Oh.
0:09.5	It was very unexpected because he would normally do you.
0:12.3	But I think it all did.
0:13.5	Something happened in the ethosphere and also he was in an airport in Dubai where he'd been at the cop thing.
0:18.5	That's very newscast to be doing an interview or a chat from an airport, isn't it?
0:21.6	Very on-brand.
0:22.6	Hurrah.
0:23.6	Yeah, well, and hurrah.
0:24.6	So, I mean, he was there.
0:26.6	He also had an op-ed in the Telegraph.
0:27.6	Yes.
0:28.6	And the op-ed in the Telegraph, I'm sure you talked to him about it.
0:30.6	So we'll give people a little tease. what's it got to do with Margaret Thatcher? Don't know, keep listening.
0:39.0	We had on their program this morning,
0:41.3	Victoria Atkins, who's been the health secretary for a few weeks,
0:44.6	and is taking over at the time of real problems in the NHS and just when it's starting to get cold too.
0:46.8	So we were talking about whether or not there's going to be a winter crisis.
0:50.5	All that on today's episode of Newscast.
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