Liz Truss & The Pop Cons
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at the return of Liz Truss and talk about online safety with the children’s commissioner for England.
Former prime minister Liz Truss launched the Popular Conservatism movement today alongside Tory backbench MPs including Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg and Lee Anderson. James Cook is joined by LBC’s Iain Dale and the political editor of Tortoise, Catherine Neilan, to discuss what the new faction means for Rishi Sunak.
And after Laura Kuenssberg’s interview at the weekend with Esther Ghey, mother of murdered teenager Brianna Ghey, we speak to the children’s commissioner for England Dame Rachel De Souza about keeping children safe online. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere
Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by James Cook. It was made by Jack Maclaren with George Dabby, Gemma Roper and Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Michael Regaard. The senior news editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | So at the weekend, Laura, Patty and Chris were talking about boxes, not cardboard boxes, |
| 0:11.2 | dispatch boxes, you know those secure boxes that government ministers cart their papers around in. |
| 0:16.0 | At Westminster they usually red aren't they? But Chris mentioned that the first minister of Northern Ireland, |
| 0:21.0 | who of course is now Michelle O'Neill of Sinn FĂ©in that |
| 0:24.0 | her box was blue and Laura wondered why which is a good question and if I'm |
| 0:30.0 | honest we still don't really know the answer. We have some theories from |
| 0:34.7 | newscasters but this is a sensitive area so we are checking them. If you know |
| 0:39.5 | for a fact please get in touch. We'd like to know why the boxes that ministers carry in |
| 0:45.9 | Northern Ireland and indeed Scotland are blue and you can tell us about Wales if you |
| 0:49.6 | know about that too. Today though on newscast we're going to be talking about some of the issues |
| 0:54.2 | raised in Laura's remarkable heart-rending interview at the weekend with Brianna Jai's |
| 0:58.6 | mom Esther, but first Liz Truss, remember her? she took center stage, real center stage today, launching |
| 1:05.4 | her new group called PopCon. |
| 1:08.0 | What's she trying to achieve? |
| 1:09.0 | What is it? |
| 1:10.0 | What does it mean for the Prime Minister? |
| 1:11.3 | All those questions and more will be answered on this episode of |
| 1:14.4 | Newscast. |
| 1:15.4 | Newscast. |
| 1:16.4 | Newscast from the BBC. |
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