No Return for Shamima Begum + Is This The Real Keir Starmer?
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at Shamima Begum losing her latest bid to regain UK citizenship, and the upcoming release of Keir Starmer’s political biography.
Begum has lost an appeal against a decision to revoke her UK citizenship. The 24 year old travelled to Syria aged 15 to join Islamic State Group, with the government revoking her citizenship in 2019. Is this the end of her legal options? Adam is joined by Joshua Baker, creator of ‘I’m Not A Monster, The Shamima Begum Story’.
To hear the full story, listen on BBC Sounds here - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p08yblkf
And, who is the real Keir Starmer? Adam speaks to his biographer Tom Baldwin about Starmer’s upbringing, his career before Westminster and claims he is “boring”. 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 Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Joe Wilkinson and Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Matt Hewitt. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.5 | Hello, later on in this episode, |
| 0:06.2 | we're going to talk to Kir Starmer's biographer |
| 0:09.0 | because he's published a new biography of the Labour |
| 0:11.8 | leader that's got everyone in politics talking |
| 0:14.3 | about what is Kieer Starmer really really like and also speculating about what |
| 0:19.2 | the motive might be for having a biography written about you just before an election. |
| 0:24.0 | Anyway, to commemorate this, we're going to launch the pop-up one day-only newscast political |
| 0:29.8 | biography book group. Please get in touch about any political biographies you've read that |
| 0:35.6 | really changed your mind about the subject. It can be anyone from any period. I was actually tempted to go and buy a biography of St Augustine the other day because I heard a podcast and somebody recommended it and it sounded really good and then I thought, hang on on am I really going to sit and read an |
| 0:54.6 | 800 page book about St Augustine? |
| 0:57.7 | Anyway, newscast at BBC.co.uk or Watsap us on 0330123 9480 for the one day only pop up newscast |
| 1:08.4 | political biography book group on with this episode of newscast |
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