Rishi Sunak and the Ten Million Pound Question

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BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Today, we look at the prime minister’s refusal to return a £10 million donation from a Conservative donor who reportedly said MP Diane Abbott “should be shot”. Plus are women who freeze their eggs being “misled” by some clinics?

PMQs was today dominated by the ongoing row surrounding alleged comments made about the former Labour MP Abbott by tory donor Frank Hester. The PM said Mr Hester's alleged comments were "wrong" and "racist", but he told MPs his "remorse should be accepted". Diane Abbott repeatedly tried to ask a question during PMQs, but did not succeed in getting the speaker to call her. Adam and Chris look at Rishi Sunak’s handling of the row. And why Diane Abbott has also called out the Labour party response?

And a BBC investigation has revealed that up to 4 in 10 fertility clinics may be breaching advertising guidelines, by not making the success rates of women who choose to freeze their eggs clear. Adam is joined by professor Geeta Nargund, a senior NHS consultant, and BBC investigative reporter Anna Collinson. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Gemma Roper and Teodora Agarici. The technical producer was Philip Bull. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham

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0:04.6	Chris, we've had an email from Janet.
0:06.6	Oh, hello, Johnette.
0:07.4	Saying, get this week's Radio Times because Chris Mason has mentioned.
0:11.6	Oh, yes. Yes. Well well for people who aren't aware of this page
0:15.8	142 or the letters page which is where I belong at ear that's gonna be sailing a
0:21.2	little bit too high for me.
0:23.0	I usually, I'm happy of in the first 130 pages.
0:25.8	I think I'm getting altitude sickness just at that.
0:28.0	I probably deserve to be at least another 50 pages back.
0:30.0	Oh, they did discover though that the highlights of newscast are broadcast on 5 live in the very early hours of Sunday morning and it's just described in the radio times as Adam Fleming and friends.
0:41.0	Anyway, right, so I'm not going to make it all about me, back to you.
0:44.4	Right, so this is a lesser from somebody called Louis in Hythe and Kent saying
0:49.3	no rest for Chris. Louis says, I hear the BBC's political editor Chris Mason most mornings on Radio
0:55.3	Four's Today programme from 6 a.m.
0:57.8	That's very early.
0:58.8	And he regularly appears on the 10 p.m. news.
1:01.0	When does he sleep? Recently he was in Rochdale for the by-election
1:04.6	results in the early hours and yet he was back on today the next morning and since we've
1:08.9	had the budget. I'm very concerned about him. Well thank you Louie. That's know, well thank you to Janet as well.
1:15.0	Well actually, you know what, I kind of sleep between about, I don't know, midnight and seven.
1:20.0	I like the From, the Today program does start at 6 a.m. But to be frank, I'm really on it before about 10 past seven.
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