Labour Leader Lessons from Lord Kinnock
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at why Labour have lost so many general elections historically, and whether this year will be different? Adam and Chris are joined by former Labour leader Lord Neil Kinnock, who also talks about the big changes needed in social care following the death of his wife. Also - Adam and Chris are joined by a Traitor from the hit BBC series. Who is it? And what’s the secret to the show’s success? 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 Gemma Roper. 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 | Chris, what do you think is the most iconic item of clothing in the UK at the moment on TV? |
| 0:09.1 | Well, a traitor-style cloak, or you're missing Thai from the 10 o'clock news on Wednesday night? |
| 0:13.4 | Well, I think the, I think, you know, the traitor-style cloak probably pips the tie. |
| 0:18.7 | I will acknowledge that despite my relative ignorance, total ignorance about the traitors. |
| 0:23.0 | I've still not found my tie though, have you not? |
| 0:25.6 | No. |
| 0:26.6 | But the merit of losing it, and actually I think it was worth losing it for this, |
| 0:31.8 | is that I got to briefly go on Scott Mills's show. |
| 0:34.0 | Oh okay because he asked me well where's your tie have you found it? |
| 0:38.5 | So I sent him a little voice note saying you know and this is still true as we |
| 0:42.4 | record now I don't know where it's gone |
| 0:44.1 | well and the ripples then spread out and even I got dragged into this because Martin Lewis |
| 0:47.6 | put out a tweet to his like 10 million followers saying that I'd probably |
| 0:50.7 | nicked it so I then had to defend myself again I mean I haven't worn a tie for several years |
| 0:55.3 | I don't know if I had one one all day yeah because I still can't find it. Anyway I'm going to take my |
| 0:59.7 | traitors cloak off because A it's quite hot also we did ask the traitors if we could have one of the real ones. |
| 1:04.8 | Oh yes. |
| 1:05.8 | They're wearing it on the one show tonight. |
| 1:07.2 | So we had to get this rip-off one. |
| 1:08.9 | So we've got. |
| 1:09.3 | I'm gonna take it off because we will be joined by a traitors mega-celebrity towards the end of this episode of newscast, |
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