Outdoor Cigs Stubbed Out

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at the government considering banning smoking outdoors in public places.

Sir Keir Starmer says that the government is looking at stopping smoking in pub gardens, outdoor restaurants, outside hospitals and sports grounds. Adam is joined by Newsnight political editor Nick Watt and 5Live presenter Nicky Campbell.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, do you remember one summer ago when the newscast gimmick du jour, or gimmick de
0:10.6	Céson more likely, was our virtual pub the Rat and Parrots it's open again for business for one day only
0:18.4	And the reason you're hearing those high quality sound effects of the rat and parrot are virtual pub is because the
0:24.5	government has confirmed they are looking at extending the indoor smoking ban to
0:30.9	include outdoor areas of establishments like pubs and nightclubs.
0:38.1	It's been confirmed by the Prime Minister, even though it started off as a leak to the Sun newspaper on Thursday morning
0:44.1	and it's caused a lot of comment as you can imagine. We will disentangle it all,
0:48.8	work out at what's going on and work out what might happen next on this episode of Newscast.
0:53.2	Newscast.
0:54.2	Newscast from the BBC.
0:56.0	The exit poll is predicting a labor landslide.
0:59.6	We did it!
1:00.6	And before you know it, you have a bright future behind you.
1:03.4	I really don't know what he said at the end of their sentence.
1:05.6	Joe, you did such a great job.
1:07.4	You answered every question.
1:09.3	Take me down to Downey Street.
1:11.0	Let's go have a tour.
1:12.8	Blimey.
1:13.8	Hello, it's Adam in the studio and we'll catch up on a few other things that are happening in politics today as well,
1:19.6	but we're going to focus in on this proposal from the government,
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