Rishi, Rwanda and Human Rights (Plus a Labour Rebellion)

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Rishi Sunak says he will introduce emergency legislation to “confirm Rwanda is safe” but with pressure mounting from his party, how far will he actually go? Home and legal correspondent Dominic Casciani joins Adam and Chris. And as UK inflation drops to its lowest rate in two years, the government says its pledge to halve inflation has been met early. Adam talks to economics correspondent, Dharshini David to find out more. Plus, immediate reaction as Sir Keir Starmer suffers a major rebellion over his stance on the Israel-Gaza war, with 56 of his MPs voting for an immediate ceasefire. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Gray with Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Gareth Jones. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Welcome to your second helping of newscasts today because there's been lots of news.
0:09.6	So we're going to chew over the continuing fallout from the government losing in the Supreme Court
0:15.8	when it comes to its policy of sending people to Rwanda so that they can claim asylum there
0:20.8	instead of in the UK.
0:22.6	The biggest thing that's happened since we recorded newscast at lunchtime is that Ritchie
0:26.2	Sunak did a press conference, which meant there was an opportunity for a Chris Mason
0:30.0	trademark Zinger.
0:31.0	Thank you, Chris Mason, BBC News.
0:33.2	Let's cut to the quick, Prime Minister.
0:35.1	You gave your Home Secretary the Heaveo on Monday.
0:38.9	The Court has shredded your Rwanda plan today.
0:42.0	It's a total shambles, isn't it? No, Chris is here for me to ask
0:45.6	him appointed question. Actually, should we do this in the style of a Ritchie Sunac
0:50.3	press gardens? Adam Fleming newscast. Yeah, Adam Fleming newscast here.
0:55.0	What were you playing at with that question, Chris?
0:57.0	So let me give you a little of a sense about how I approached these news conferences. So, know what is a news conference you've got a
1:05.5	leader in front of you've got a load of journalists in the room and it's on the
1:08.6	tele and I'm primarily there thinking about the six and ten o'clock news
1:13.4	piece where my principal concern I've learned this the hard way is keep the
1:19.8	question short how do you know a question is short no commas in it now to be fair there short. And also the question has to be broad.
1:33.1	If you're doing a television piece, you can't really disappear down into the minutiate.
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