Speaker Hoyle on the Brink + Shapps on Ukraine
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Today we look at the pressure building on Sir Lindsay Hoyle, and ask whether he could be replaced as speaker of the House of Commons?
Rishi Sunak says Sir Lindsay Hoyle's decision to break with convention on a Gaza ceasefire vote is "very concerning". More than 60 MPs now say they have no confidence in Hoyle, who has apologised twice for making the "wrong decision". Adam speaks to defence secretary Grant Shapps about that, the anniversary of the war in Ukraine and the failed Trident missile launch. Plus Adam hears how likely Hoyle is to be replaced from Chris and the Institute for Government’s Hannah White.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Chris, can I read out some fan mail we've received? |
| 0:06.9 | Oh blimey, have we? |
| 0:07.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:08.9 | Yeah. Although, there's a twist. |
| 0:11.6 | This is from Rich, who posted on the newscast discord |
| 0:14.2 | server saying I would like to say A I read it in the Guardian didn't understand it. |
| 0:18.0 | B I read it in the mail didn't understand it. |
| 0:20.5 | C I listen to it on PM on Radio 4 and didn't understand it. D. I listened to it on PM on Radio 4 and didn't understand it. |
| 0:24.0 | D I listened to it on newscast. |
| 0:26.0 | Understood it. |
| 0:27.0 | I think. I have now explained it to others. |
| 0:28.0 | Yay! |
| 0:29.0 | So that's a big tick for us. |
| 0:31.0 | Although, notably that was an episode you weren't in. |
| 0:33.2 | That is a detail we could have glossed over. |
| 0:37.2 | I was basking in Rich's glorious vocabulary and praise and was quite happy to just soak it up in a very royal sense but |
| 0:46.1 | you know you're right I wasn't around. There's a chance for you to redeem yourself on |
| 0:50.6 | this episode of this. |
| 0:51.6 | Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. yourself on this episode. Newscast. |
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| 0:55.0 | Why can't people buy a house? |
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