Partygate Fine for PM
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have been fined and are facing calls to resign for breaking lockdown rules...
Adam is joined by the BBC’s Vicki Young and former Downing Street director of communications, Sir Craig Oliver, to discuss what next for the prime minister and the chancellor.
Also… as the US and Britain say they are looking into reports that chemical weapons have been used by Russian forces in Ukraine, former weapons inspector Jerry Smith explains the challenges when it comes to verifying claims like these.
Today’s Newscast was made by Tim Walklate with Ben Cooper and Osman Iqbal. Emma Crowe was the technical producer. The assistant editor was Alison Gee.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.8 | Hello! Today we had one of those proper bombshells. The news was just motoring along, then |
| 0:11.8 | at lunchtime the Metropolitan Police announced there was going to be a new batch of fines |
| 0:16.1 | fixed penalty notices for parties in Dining Street and Whitehall that breached the lockdown |
| 0:22.2 | rules, something we have talked about a lot. |
| 0:25.6 | 10. Number 10 confirmed that some of the people receiving those fines were the Prime Minister |
| 0:31.7 | and the Chancellor. So that's what we're going to talk about on this episode of Newscast. |
| 0:35.6 | Newscast. Newscast from the Bay Bay say that we'll take some time before we figure out |
| 0:41.0 | what our new normal is. Now if that is the argument then we are going into unprecedented |
| 0:46.2 | territory combined with contract tasting, contact tasting, tracing through. Yes, yes, yes. |
| 1:02.7 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio and even though Laura Kuhnsberg has left for a bit, we've |
| 1:09.2 | still got a top political journalist in a form of transport with a dodgy signal. It's |
| 1:14.2 | Vicki Young and a taxi. Hi, Vicki. Hello, I'm an taxi on the way back from checkers. |
| 1:18.6 | Oh yes, because you've just been interviewing Boris Johnson on this big day and also joining |
| 1:22.9 | us is Friend of the podcast, former Director of Communications for David Cameron and former |
| 1:27.4 | editor at the BBC. So Craig Oliver, hi Craig. Hello. So actually Vicki, you know what, |
| 1:32.8 | let's just dive straight into the interview you did with Boris Johnson a little while ago. |
| 1:37.2 | We're recording this episode of Newscast on Tuesday just before 7pm about half an hour |
| 1:41.6 | ago. You stuck the microphone in front of Boris Johnson and here's what he said. We're |
| 1:45.4 | going to play the whole thing. Today I've received a fixed penalty notice from the Metropolitan |
| 1:51.6 | Police relating to an event in Downey Street on the 19th of June 2020 and let me say immediately |
| 1:58.0 | that I've paid the fine and I once again offer a full apology and in a spirit of openness |
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