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Levelling Shake-Up

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.46.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Government's plan to tackle regional inequality is published... Adam talks through what it means with the BBC’s Alex Forsyth and Sheffield filmmaker, Mark Herbert. More Tory MPs say they want Johnson out of Downing Street. Laura's got the latest... And the BBC's Jon Kay tells us about his new pod, Fairy Meadow, all about the disappearance of a girl from a beach in Australia. 50 years on, can the mystery be solved? Today’s Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with John Murphy, Georgia Coan and Alex Partridge. The studio director was Emma Crowe.

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0:04.6

Hello, thank you for your suggestions so far for the newscast basket of goods where we're

0:09.2

going to have like a pile of stuff that we just monitor the price of so we can see what's

0:13.2

happening with the cost of living and the global economy and all that stuff.

0:17.4

And throughout this episode, some of our friends of the podcast are going to give us their

0:21.5

suggestions for what should go in it.

0:24.1

All that and the rest of the day's big news in this episode of newscast.

0:27.5

Newscast, newscast from the BBC that will take some time before we figure out what our

0:33.1

new normal is.

0:34.1

Now if that is the argument then we are going into unprecedented territory.

0:38.6

Combined, we contract tasting, contact tasting, tortesting, tracing food.

0:44.2

Yes, yes, yes.

0:45.8

I'm vegan so of course I don't like meatball.

0:48.9

Next slide please.

0:49.9

Blair, Blair, Blair, Lewis, Lewis, Lewis.

0:54.8

Hello, it's Adam in the studio.

0:57.1

How many times have we said or heard the two words slogan leveling up?

1:03.9

But how many times honestly have we really understood what it meant?

1:08.5

Well today we've got a massive hand in doing that from the government.

1:11.9

A 332 pays long leveling up white paper.

1:16.8

White paper being the technical name for when you do a big document that points the way

1:20.0

for some new legislation or some new policy programs in government and the person who's

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