Summary
Ben Wallace resigns, Grant Shapps replaces him as defence secretary and Claire Coutinho takes over as energy secretary. Chris Mason and Laura Kuenssberg join Adam to chat about why Rishi Sunak has reassembled his top team and what else is in the Prime Minister’s in-tray for Parliament’s return.
And filmmakers Matt Shea and Jamie Tahsin discuss how they investigated the influencer Andrew Tate for their new documentary ‘Andrew Tate: The Man Who Groomed The World?’.
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Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Miranda Slade with Josh Jenkins and Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Dafydd Evans. The editor is Daniel Wittenberg.
00:00 - Newscast's weekend edition 03:02 - Chris Mason and Laura Kuenssberg on Rishi Sunak's reshuffle 21:44 - ‘Andrew Tate: The Man Who Groomed The World?’
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, politics is back with Avengers, |
| 0:07.1 | because everyone's gone back to Westminster |
| 0:09.5 | and they decided to have a reshuffle, |
| 0:11.2 | although I've made it sound slightly more exciting |
| 0:12.8 | than it actually was. |
| 0:13.7 | But there's still lots of things to unpack, |
| 0:15.7 | and also back, not with Avengers, |
| 0:17.6 | but in a lovely way, it's okay. |
| 0:19.7 | Hello, hi, hello, sorry. |
| 0:21.4 | I was just finishing a message. |
| 0:22.8 | Well, this is also classic Laura. |
| 0:24.6 | She's texting somebody, well, |
| 0:26.1 | while I'm just sort of sitting around. |
| 0:28.0 | My phone down there now. |
| 0:29.2 | This is the first time we've seen each other |
| 0:31.1 | since the momentous news, |
| 0:32.8 | the announcement of seven days of week of use time. |
| 0:34.9 | I know, that's exciting, isn't it? |
| 0:37.6 | It's kind of like, it's back to the old days |
| 0:40.2 | of even though it's not going to be you and me together. |
| 0:42.4 | Well, maybe for special occasions, |
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