Politics, Polls and Peaches
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Are social care plans a vote winner or loser? Boris Johnson’s former friend and colleague Nick Boles joins Laura, Adam and Chris from his holiday in Ibiza, to give his verdict on the government’s new tax for social care. He once proposed a very similar system himself. And Chief Executive of Ipsos Mori Ben Page tells us about the public’s attitude to the government’s new policy and why Labour have a huge challenge if they want to beat the Conservatives at the next election. Today’s Newscast was made by Caitlin Hanrahan with Maz Ebtehaj. Jonathan Aspinwall is the Editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Parliament is back, which means a politics themed Thursday night episode of |
| 0:09.2 | newscast is back. |
| 0:10.4 | Hooray, here we are. |
| 0:12.1 | How lovely to be together. |
| 0:13.0 | Yes. |
| 0:14.0 | There are. |
| 0:15.0 | Chris, have you had any kind of interesting encounters now that you're seeing people in the real world? |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah, I went to a what's called the lobby briefing. |
| 0:21.0 | The reporters being briefed by Downing Street by the official spokesman. the people face to face which is great and also and I think Laura you had this |
| 0:33.3 | experience in the day the air conditioning in that quite swanky however many |
| 0:37.6 | million pound refurbed room in Downing Street I think they got a good air |
| 0:41.4 | conditioning system it was mighty cold in there. |
| 0:43.2 | Yes, freezing, but also real life press conferences. |
| 0:48.8 | Which means you can do things like kind of mini heckling the Prime Minister when he's not answering the question. |
| 0:53.9 | No asking a supplementary and it means they can't mute you. |
| 0:57.1 | But it's also now the right thing to do to take reasonable fair responsible steps to put the NHS back on its feet and that's what we're doing. |
| 1:07.0 | But plenty of people don't have assets, they have wages, and people who have wages and no assets are the ones who will pay here. |
| 1:14.0 | But everybody has relatives. |
| 1:19.0 | You must have missed the opportunity to do that for the last 14 months? |
| 1:23.0 | Well, we know that, right? |
| 1:24.5 | We talked about it in this program and actually even, you know, |
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