Leader Profiles: Rishi Sunak

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This bonus episode of Newscast is a profile of the Prime Minister, and leader of the Conservative Party, Rishi Sunak.

Adam is joined by Katy Balls, political editor of The Spectator, and Peter Cardwell, former special adviser and Talk TV presenter, to chronicle Rishi Sunak’s early life and political career. They discuss his family and upbringing, career and his defining moments as a politician including behind-the-scenes insights from the people who know and have worked with him.

This episode is part of a series where Newscast profiles each of the leaders of major political parties.

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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Miranda Slade with Elliot Ryder and Gemma Roper. The technical producers were Hannah Montgomery and Phil Bull. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:05.0	Hello, as part of newscasts election cast coverage,
0:08.0	we are bringing you these bonus episodes where we profile each of the major party leaders running in the 2024 general election.
0:16.1	We've been speaking to journalists who followed their careers and also people who know them pretty
0:20.8	well. Just trying to find out what they're really like. So this
0:24.2	episode is about Rishi Sunak, Prime Minister, leader of the Conservative Party. You
0:29.0	may already know that 44-year-old Rishi grew up in Southampton where his mum ran a pharmacy.
0:35.4	If you're a regular listener you'll know that.
0:38.0	Then he worked in banking, then he entered politics and very quickly he became
0:42.0	Chancellor of the Exchequer during COVID. But did you know that he is a fan of
0:48.0	Julie Cooper novels? Did you know what his staff say about what it's like to work for him and do you really know the
0:54.6	inside track on how he fell out with Boris Johnson which then ended up with him
1:00.0	running for the leadership we will cover all of that and more on this episode of
1:04.9	Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. As a teenager I helped deliver
1:10.4	prescriptions and do the book. I'm friends who are in a working class. I'm a working class, but I'm not a working class.
1:14.9	We're setting up a new coronavirus job retention scheme.
1:18.6	A man is a man, and a woman is a woman.
1:20.7	Stop the boats.
1:21.6	Both Royal Smith and me having our wives attacked at least I didn't slap anybody which is good.
1:26.0	Well we can talk about Rishi Zunach now because we're joined by two
1:29.7	seasoned observers of him. Katie balls is political editor at The Spectator magazine.
1:34.0	Hi Katie. Hello. I say magazine. The Spectator is kind of everything now though isn't it?
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