Summary
We chat to Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper.
Adam is back from his holiday and is joined by Scotland Editor James Cook. They speak to the Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and Madeleine Sumption, director of the Migration Observatory at Oxford University.
Chris Mason is also on a beach (!) in Great Yarmouth reporting on how migration numbers have gone down in parts of the country that voted for Brexit.
Today’s Newscast was presented by James Cook and Adam Fleming. It was made by Rufus Gray with Chris Flynn. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, newscasters, Chris Mason here. |
| 0:02.2 | Quite another Thursday already. |
| 0:03.4 | So another Thursday newscast when we're on the telly as well, |
| 0:06.1 | BBC One, after question time. |
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| 0:14.2 | and then we'll pop up every time we turn out another episode. |
| 0:18.3 | Thanks a lot. |
| 0:20.4 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:23.6 | Hello, I'm back. |
| 0:25.2 | And I find that Chris Mason is not here, |
| 0:27.1 | but luckily keeping me company is James Cook, BBC Scotland Editor. |
| 0:31.2 | Hello. Hello, how are you? |
| 0:32.4 | I'm very well, thank you. |
| 0:33.3 | And you're here for a momentous day in political news, |
| 0:35.7 | because Rishi Sunack, the Prime Minister, |
| 0:37.5 | was on this morning on ITV and admitted this about his reading habits. |
| 0:42.4 | Is these Gilly Cooper books, true? |
| 0:44.7 | Do you read, are you really into those books? |
| 0:46.1 | Is that not true? |
| 0:47.1 | Yes, that is true. |
| 0:49.1 | It is true. |
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