Resignation Street

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Four of the prime minister’s close aides have resigned in one day. Adam, Laura and Chris chew over the implications of the latest departures for Boris Johnson. Energy prices are soaring – so, what’s the government doing? Ofgem says millions of people will pay 54% more for their energy from April, or almost £700 on an average bill. The Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak explains what he’s doing to lessen the shock for households. Northern Ireland’s First Minister Paul Givan has announced his resignation, in protest against the Northern Ireland protocol... Chris is in Belfast. Today’s Newscast was made by Alison Gee with Danny Wittenberg and John Murphy. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.9	Confession time.
0:06.6	We'd recorded tonight's episode of newscast, and then I went to the pub to have...
0:11.5	It turns out two-thirds of a pint with a friend.
0:15.3	Then of course my phone went mad because loads of developments happened in the Downing
0:19.4	Street sacking saga.
0:22.2	So I've popped back.
0:23.8	Laura never left.
0:26.0	What's happened tonight?
0:27.0	Well as one MP said to me it's not a Downing Street nightmare.
0:29.8	It's a Downing Street meltdown.
0:31.2	And let's say we are now recording this at 815 in the last couple of hours.
0:36.8	The Prime Minister's policy chief has quit.
0:38.8	The Prime Minister's Director of Communications has quit.
0:41.6	The Prime Minister's chief of staff has quit.
0:43.8	The Prime Minister's principal private secretary, always worrying about getting that out correctly,
0:49.7	has also quit.
0:51.0	So four of the most senior people in Downing Street are on their way out.
0:55.7	We're expecting a bit of a clear out.
0:58.3	One of them we were not expecting.
1:02.0	And it all makes everything feel like my wobbly janguitar, I talk about every week.
1:07.8	Yeah.
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