Sir David Amess Killed
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The Conservative MP has died after being stabbed at his constituency surgery in Essex. As politicians on all sides pay tribute to one of their colleagues, Laura and Alex Forsyth get together with Adam to reflect on Sir David’s life and death, as well as the issue of MPs’ safety.
In this episode you can also hear an interview that we recorded earlier this afternoon, with the environmental activist, Lily Cole. Lily has been at the TED climate conference in Edinburgh, discussing her campaigning on solutions to climate change.
Today’s Newscast was made by Danny Wittenberg with producers Georgia Coan and Alix Pickles. The studio director was Emma Crowe and the assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, we're recording this edition of newscast on Friday evening, and when we started putting |
| 0:09.8 | it together this afternoon, we started getting reports that the conservative MP Sir David |
| 0:14.6 | Amos had been stabbed while he'd been holding a constituency surgery in Essex. Then a few |
| 0:21.0 | hours later, Kim the news that he'd died. So we're going to focus the first half of this |
| 0:26.3 | episode on those events. Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. We'll take some time before we figure |
| 0:33.0 | out what our new normal is. Now if that is the argument then we are going into unprecedented |
| 0:38.8 | territory. Combined with contract tasting, contact tasting, testing, tracing, yes, yes. |
| 0:46.5 | I'm vegan, so of course I don't like meatball. Let's next slide please. Blah, blah, blah, |
| 0:52.4 | loose, loose, loose. Hello, it's Adam in the studio. Hello, it's Alex in another studio, |
| 1:00.0 | him Westminster, and it's Laura in the next store studio to Alex. And Boris Johnson has just |
| 1:05.0 | tweeted a really nice picture of Sir David Amos, just saying Sir David Amos MP 1952 to 2021. |
| 1:12.7 | Now Alex, do you know their political correspondent on duty throughout this afternoon? |
| 1:16.1 | Do you want to just take us through how it all unfolded? Yeah, it's one of those strange things |
| 1:20.3 | because I don't frequently work in Westminster anymore. I happen to be here today and it's one |
| 1:24.3 | of those days when you think you're a member where you were but for all the wrong reasons. |
| 1:28.4 | We started to hear reports that came out that somebody had been stabbed in a constituency very |
| 1:33.5 | quickly. It was reported that that was Sir David Amos. We didn't know how severe it was of course. |
| 1:39.1 | So I spoke to a couple of local conservative councillors who were there and I think we quickly |
| 1:44.3 | realised that this was something quite serious indeed. And then it didn't take long really |
| 1:50.0 | for the news of his death to be confirmed. And all the while, of course, I think you know, |
| 1:54.3 | you've got what's happening down on the ground, which is emergency services and its ambulance |
| 1:59.5 | and the police. And I think there it felt like, you know, there was a lot of confusion and there |
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