Shadow Chancellor Mel Unshelled on the Spring Statement
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🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Today, Adam is joined by Jeremy Bowen to discuss the summit taking place in Paris, where Europe’s leaders have united behind support for Ukraine and further sanctions against Russia.
Plus, Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride is in the studio to give Adam and Chris his verdict on yesterday’s Spring Statement. And, it wouldn’t be Mel Stride on Newscast without a political sporting metaphors quiz.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.2 | Hello, coming up on this episode of Newscast, we have got a classic for this podcast. |
| 0:10.5 | It's a senior frontline politician. |
| 0:13.0 | It's Chris Mason. |
| 0:14.3 | It's some chunky analysis, including charts, spreadsheets and graphs about the future of the country, |
| 0:20.0 | and I suspect there's going to be a |
| 0:22.0 | quiz. That's the second half of this episode of Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. I like landscapes. |
| 0:29.4 | I don't think I'm being rude. Japping, unemployed people who are overweight. That is not the |
| 0:33.9 | agenda. It's the fun police working overtime. The star is born, Elon. |
| 0:38.7 | So hurt that America let this happen. Frankly, I think we need a British Trump. Take me down to |
| 0:43.6 | Downing Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. And shortly, |
| 0:49.6 | I will be joined by that frontline politician. It's the shadow chancellor Mel Stride. I just realized maybe I |
| 0:56.2 | sort of expect it's going to be like Barack Obama or something. But anyway, Mel is still very |
| 1:01.1 | welcome. But first of all, we're going to head to Paris because Vlodomir Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, |
| 1:07.0 | has been there meeting Emmanuel Macron, the French president, several other leaders, |
| 1:11.7 | including Kier Starrmer, the prime minister. And it's an update on how they're getting on |
| 1:16.3 | with their coalition of the willing, which would be the military force that would kind of |
| 1:20.5 | implement any ceasefire. But are we actually any closer to that military force being agreed? |
| 1:26.4 | And are we any closer at all to that ceasefire |
| 1:28.9 | being agreed? I suspect the answer to both those questions is no. But let's find out for |
| 1:33.9 | definite with the person who's there. It's friend of the podcast, BBC International Editor |
| 1:37.8 | Jeremy Bowen. Hi, Jeremy. Hey, hello. Good to be back with you. Well, good to see you. Lots to get through in terms of what's been happening in Paris. |
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