Summary
After five months and nine days, the Sue Gray report into lockdown gatherings at Downing Street has finally arrived. Adam, Chris and Vicki pore over the details.
Also, the BBC’s Sarah Smith is in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 young children and two adults have died in a shooting at a primary school.
Today’s Newscast was made by Tim Walklate, with Chris Flynn and Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Alison Gee.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, the report into claims of lockdown breaching parties in number 10 Dining Street |
| 0:09.8 | and Whitehall during the pandemic, prepared by the senior civil servant, Sugre has landed. |
| 0:16.6 | Five months and nine days since she was first asked to lead the investigation on the 17th |
| 0:22.3 | of December 2021, that's 160 days of waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting. |
| 0:39.6 | No, it's always fun to compare long waits with the gestation period of animals. |
| 0:43.8 | The Sugre report has had the same gestation period as a Gwenon Monkey or in fact it's |
| 0:49.6 | long enough to grow a pass today. |
| 0:51.6 | Well, if someone from the newscast office has been busy on Google today, it's longer |
| 0:56.4 | than Kim Kardashian's marriage to Chris Humphries, which was 72 days. |
| 1:00.6 | Remember that series of keeping up the Kardashians very well, that was when it was had its peak. |
| 1:05.1 | King Edward V's reign, which was 78 days, and George Canning's Prime Minister's ship, |
| 1:10.9 | which went from April 1827 to August 1827. |
| 1:16.4 | Once the investigation began, out in the real world, Russia invaded Ukraine, Crossrail |
| 1:22.8 | is finished, and I went on it for the first time today, actually, and there's a new |
| 1:27.0 | political editor at the BBC, although we still find things to eat. |
| 1:30.5 | A whole new streaming service was launched and shut down, our friend CNN+, Disney Studios |
| 1:36.9 | released eight films, a new type of millipedes discovered, and named after Taylor Swift. |
| 1:44.5 | How should I miss? Did we do a nicer one that? |
| 1:47.5 | The world has a robot that can peel bananas without smashing them to bits. |
| 1:52.2 | Must have done that story when I was skiing. |
| 1:55.0 | And petrol, oh yeah, petrol's gone up, looking at this graph from 1.45 a liter to 1.70 |
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