Summary
Today, we look at the reaction to the Newscast interview with Former Prime Minister Liz Truss, and the commons vote to ban anyone born after 2009 from buying cigarettes.
After yesterday’s interview with Liz Truss, we put your questions to Chris Mason, and get his reaction to what the former Prime Minister said.
And MPs have voted to ban the sale of tobacco products to people born after 2009. A number of leading Tories opposed the bill, including Liz Truss and Kemi Badenoch, but with Labour’s support it made it through the Commons. James and Chris speak to Wes Streeting, Shadow Secretary of State for Health. 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 and Chris Mason. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Miranda Slade and Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Daffyd Evans. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hi Chris. |
| 0:05.4 | Hello. |
| 0:06.7 | Well, a busy day for you yesterday. |
| 0:09.7 | It was rather, yeah, you know, a former Prime Minister touring the studios and popping by a newscast H King. |
| 0:16.5 | Not for just five minutes either. |
| 0:18.5 | No, so often you know what I do interviews with sort of senior politicians |
| 0:23.2 | particularly if it's like a prime minister or labor leader or whatever. |
| 0:26.0 | First minister of Wales they'll say you've got seven minutes or seven and a half minutes. |
| 0:30.9 | And then they start tugging you or they probably don't do that to you because you |
| 0:33.3 | are the political editor they do it to me banging your arm. |
| 0:36.3 | As you say they grab the lapel of your suit from just out of shot or start tapping you on the |
| 0:40.7 | arm or elbowing you or whatever. |
| 0:43.2 | And I'd sort of thought with Liz Trust we might do about half an hour and I think it was |
| 0:46.9 | about 45 minutes in the end. |
| 0:48.5 | So it was interesting that's for sure and as ever all roads lead back to Taylor Swift which just as |
| 0:53.6 | means it's a shame Adam's not here did you ever think you would spend so much |
| 0:57.2 | time as political editor talking about Taylor Swift? No you see Adam's reach you |
| 1:02.4 | know he might be away from newscast, but he's never away from newscast. |
| 1:06.2 | Madderdy has been on touch on discord about our Liz trust, your Liz, |
| 1:10.7 | trust interview, our Liz trust episode. I would absolutely love to watch this episode with |
| 1:14.6 | Chris Mason's internal dialogue commenting along. Well, we can't quite do that, obviously, but we can do the next |
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