Professor Green and Chris Mason: Friends Reunited

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Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Conservative treasury minister Victoria Atkins and shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock discuss whether private schools should get tax breaks and what it’s like being the children of politicians. And rapper Professor Green speaks about how we should approach mental health at a time when people are struggling with the cost of living. Also, on the day that Ian Blackford steps down as SNP Westminster leader, we check in on his pet lambs Mango and Chutney. This episode of Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming and Chris Mason and was made by Chris Flynn and Danny Wittenberg with Emma Jacobs. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.9	A dramatic departure in Owens and Westminster today, Chris.
0:08.1	A party leader stands aside.
0:10.4	Another one.
0:11.3	I know.
0:12.3	This time it is the leader of the Scottish National Party at Westminster, Ian Blackford,
0:17.1	who has been on newscast in the past and is going to stand down.
0:20.8	And so will be no more as the leader of the Westminster group of SMP MPs.
0:26.8	He is the third party who you hear from every week of Prime Minister's questions.
0:29.8	And so he is quite a sort of big noise around these parts.
0:32.6	It looks like a guy called Stephen Flynn will be the successor.
0:36.6	And the outgoing Ian Blackford was incoming on newscast in May when we interviewed him from
0:42.0	his craft because he is a far bar.
0:45.1	And the SMP at Westminster isn't the only flock he looks after.
0:47.9	He has a flock of sheep and he revealed some of his favourites to us when we chatted to him
0:52.3	last time.
0:53.3	This year's two have been called mango and chutney.
0:55.2	And I am trying to negotiate that the sold-on is tops elsewhere because you can't keep
1:00.5	in pets.
1:01.5	But there is an attachment that you have to them.
1:03.9	They will actually come to the door and bang their noses on the door to be allowed in
1:07.9	to be fed.
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