Summary
Filling up on Labour conference, Germany elections and HGV news. Shadow cabinet minister, Andy McDonald, has quit Labour’s frontbench with a scathing attack on Sir Keir Starmer on the eve of his major speech to the Brighton delegates. He’s accused the Labour leader of making the party “more divided than ever” and breaking promises to members over working conditions. Adam and Laura are on the conference floor to assess how it’s gone down. Plus, Laura stumbles across Newscast superfan Jacob, who wangles his way onto the pod.
Also in a Brexitcast-esque crossover, Katya calls in from Berlin, where Germany's centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) have claimed a narrow election victory, telling the party of Angela Merkel it should no longer be in power. But the outgoing chancellor’s retirement is on hold for what could be weeks of coalition negotiations, with conservative Armin Laschet determined to fight on.
Today’s Newscast was made by Caitlin Hanrahan with producers Danny Wittenberg, Ben Cooper and Soila Apparicio. The studio director was Emma Crowe and the assistant editor was Sam Bonham. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, nothing says the world has got back to normal like going to a party political |
| 0:10.4 | conference. In this case, I'm at the Labour Party in Brighton and it's |
| 0:15.9 | lots of people squished into rooms and parties with wine where you can't hear |
| 0:21.7 | what anyone's saying so you shout directly into everyone's |
| 0:24.4 | ear and that is a little bit of a culture shock after what we've been through but |
| 0:30.0 | it is good to be back in this kind of world. |
| 0:33.6 | So I'm chatting to you now from the hotel, |
| 0:36.2 | which is next door to the convention center. |
| 0:38.7 | This is where everyone goes in the evening |
| 0:40.6 | and you go in here like these panel discussions |
| 0:42.4 | about what's the future of transport in the north or you listen to Andy Burnham doing a thinly veiled leadership bit to take over from Kierst Armour or you go for a nice dinner and during the day just up the road everyone's in the Convention |
| 0:53.9 | Center debating all the motions and changes to the Labour Party rulebook or |
| 0:57.4 | listening to the Shadow Chancellor's speech. So that's basically the setup. |
| 1:01.8 | Shall we get on with an episode of Newscast from the Labour Party Conference? |
| 1:05.0 | Newscast. |
| 1:06.0 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:08.0 | It will take some time before we figure out what our new normal is. |
| 1:12.0 | Now if that is the argument, |
| 1:13.7 | then we are going into unprecedented territory. |
| 1:16.6 | Combined with contact tasting, |
| 1:20.4 | testing, tracing, for you. |
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