Rachel Reeves in ‘Bring It On Mode’
Radical with Amol Rajan
BBC
4.5 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The Chancellor has backed the expansion of Heathrow and picked a fight with bats in her pursuit of economic growth. Nick is joined by fellow Today presenter Justin Webb to talk about his interview with Rachel Reeves on Thursday morning’s Today programme.
They discuss her new approach, whether Keir Starmer's government is taking a leaf out of Donald Trump’s book and why political interviews are much better face-to-face.
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The Today Podcast is hosted by Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson who are both presenters of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. Amol was the BBC’s media editor for six years and is the former editor of the Independent, he’s also the current presenter of University Challenge. Nick has presented the Today programme since 2015, he was the BBC’s political editor for ten years before that and also previously worked as ITV’s political editor.
This episode was made by Lewis Vickers with Nadia Gyane and Grace Reeve. Digital production was by Nadia Gyane and Grace Reeve. The technical producer was Hannah Montgomery. The editor is Louisa Lewis. The executive producer is Owenna Griffiths.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Have you heard? |
| 0:06.1 | I want to go further and faster on delivering growth and getting stuff built in Britain. |
| 0:10.8 | For too long, we've been in the slow lane of growth, and it's working people that pay the price. |
| 0:15.2 | Yes, that was Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, saying she wants to go further and faster on growth again and saying it |
| 0:21.3 | on this occasion to Justin, Justin Webb on Thursday's Today program after she'd just given a |
| 0:28.3 | major speech. So what does growth mean for that other big pledge of this government to be green? |
| 0:34.2 | What does it mean for energy prices? What does it mean for bats? And will all this talk |
| 0:38.6 | about what might happen in 5, 10, 20 or 30 years time turn into results that voters care about |
| 0:45.4 | voters worried about paying the bill? Ammel's away this week. So I'm talking to Justin about all |
| 0:50.8 | that in this edition of the Today Podcast. |
| 0:55.0 | Let's do it. |
| 1:17.5 | Hello, it's Nick in the Today Podcasts studio, but no I'mal with me this week because he's at the Kumella, the world's largest religious gathering. |
| 1:21.9 | The heart of some sad news as well as much celebration this week. |
| 1:25.9 | We'll hear much, much more about his experiences when he gets back next week. |
| 1:28.5 | But the good news is is Justin is with me. |
| 1:30.3 | Well, not quite with me, Justin. |
| 1:30.9 | Where are you? |
| 1:32.7 | I can't say. |
| 1:35.7 | It's an undisclosed location, you know, these things are like. |
| 1:37.3 | So I've come up to East Yorkshire, basically. |
| 1:41.4 | Spent quite a lot of time in Hull, fascinating time in Hull with a load of businesses, talking about Rachel Reeves' growth speech and then talking to her at a factory near Hull with a load of businesses talking about Rachel Rees' growth speech and then |
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