Summary
Today, the leader of the Unite union says Labour is not defending working people and they are turning away from the party "in droves".
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner was yesterday suspended by the union - and Unite’s General Secretary Sharon Graham says Labour should be ‘seriously concerned’ after the union voted to potentially rethink its relationship with the party, which could result in it formally cutting ties and funding.
And Paddy and Laura give an update on what we know what happened to the Air India plane crash that killed 260 people in June.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Paddy, Paddy, where was your phone? |
| 0:06.4 | Well, my phone was in the BBC in another studio, and I just left it. |
| 0:11.0 | I should hang it around my net, like I came with her spectacles. |
| 0:15.0 | Oh, like Larry Grayson, I was thinking. |
| 0:16.9 | You could be the new at Larry Grayson. |
| 0:19.2 | Shut that door. |
| 0:20.7 | So newscasters, if you were not with us last week, Paddy lost his phone and we were trying to find him and then it took us a long time to find him, but he had lost his phone. |
| 0:27.9 | Anyway, your phone was found, but you've gone missing today. |
| 0:30.5 | So I'm in a pub in Sheffield so that you don't have to be. We're speaking to the community gardener here, it's called the Gardner's Rest, |
| 0:40.5 | about what they're going to do with the Yorkshire Water Hosepipe Band. |
| 0:42.5 | Well, that sounds like a very good place to be. |
| 0:47.7 | I'm not in Sheffield, but I am here in Broadcasting House for this Saturday's episode of newscast. |
| 0:50.3 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:53.3 | He has just compared me to the fat controller. |
| 0:56.2 | Did I say that? I can't believe I said that. |
| 1:02.1 | Next question. This is R for the benefit of Earth. I'm not personally a huge Sabrina Carpenter fan. I don't think I'm being rude. I like landscapes. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a |
| 1:08.1 | tour. Blimey. It's Laura in the studio. It's Paddy at the Gardner's Rest Pub in Sheffield. |
| 1:12.9 | And I'm not on my own some today, even though you've abandoned me. |
| 1:16.1 | George Eaton, the senior editor of the New Statesman magazine is with me this afternoon. |
| 1:20.4 | Hello. |
| 1:21.3 | So, George, part of the reason you are here, and it's nice to have you with us anyway, is because there is this row, quite an unusual row, happening between big figures on the left. |
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