Labournomics: Ask Reeves
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves is in the studio. She promises to hand more power to the UK economic watchdog the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), discusses Sir Keir Starmer’s comments on common ground with the EU, and tells Adam where Labour is on HS2. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere. Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Flynn with Joe Wilkinson and Keiligh Baker. The technical producer was Dafydd Evans. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, today, Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, is on a full-bore mission to convince the entire country that she can be trusted with the nation's finances. |
| 0:16.4 | So, what a perfect day to get Rachel Reeves as our guest on Newscast. |
| 0:20.9 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:23.4 | He got trounced by the former Prime Minister, who herself got beaten by a lettuce. |
| 0:27.9 | At least I didn't slap anybody, which is good. |
| 0:29.8 | Green economy. |
| 0:30.9 | Blah, blah, blah. |
| 0:31.7 | It's the Guardian reading. |
| 0:33.8 | Tofu eating, whoa-parati. |
| 0:36.1 | I'm actually very right wing. |
| 0:39.4 | You do come up with the most remarkable twaddle. Today I feel gay. |
| 0:41.2 | The Prime Minister is not under a desk. |
| 0:43.7 | I'm here because I like Harry and Megan. |
| 0:45.9 | And I don't care what anybody says about me. |
| 0:48.1 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio and I'm not sat here on my own |
| 0:52.1 | because joining me for the whole of this episode in the studio |
| 0:54.7 | is the shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves. Hi Rachel. Hello there. Thanks for coming in. Oh, |
| 0:59.4 | so you were at the stock exchange this morning. Do you get to like ring a bell or something or is that in |
| 1:03.0 | America? Well, I did get to go to the London, to the New York Stock Exchange when I was there |
| 1:09.0 | earlier this year and they've still got trading, real trading on the New York Stock Exchange when I was there earlier this year. And they've still got trading, real trading on the New York Stock Exchange floor, but not in London. So they don't |
| 1:15.3 | have any actual people trading. I mean, so much of it now is all on computer and automated. |
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