Starmer Bets on the House

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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As the Labour Party Conference draws to a close, Chris joins Adam to discuss his interview with Sir Keir Starmer, in which the Labour leader reiterated his pledge to build 1.5 million homes. And the chair of the British Palestinian Committee, Dr Aimee Shalan, speaks to Adam about the situation in Gaza after Israel cut off its access to electricity. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by George Dabby with Sam McLaren and Gemma Roper. The technical producer was Philip Bull. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, Labour Party Conference has drawn to a close in Liverpool and one of the last big
0:09.3	speeches was the Shadow Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, but I just want to tell you
0:13.7	the last 24 hours in the life of Wes Streeting, though.
0:17.8	So here he is in the newscast temporary pop-up studio on Tuesday evening.
0:22.9	Nothing more trying to do is connect to sort of big long-term ambitions within the sort
0:30.1	of practical steps, the first step.
0:32.1	Here he is much later on Tuesday evening, singing karaoke at a very large party hosted by
0:40.3	the Mirror News paper.
0:42.3	And that was quite late in the evening because I was there, didn't sing, though.
0:50.1	And here he is on the podium delivering his speech.
0:53.5	Labour will never abandon the founding principles of the NHS as a publicly funded public service
1:01.8	free at the point of youth.
1:04.0	I mean, you could agree or disagree with his policies, but you can't disagree that
1:08.1	Wes Streeting has got serious stamina.
1:10.9	So that's 24 hours in the life of Wes Streeting.
1:13.8	Should we catch up on 24 hours in the life of BBC political editor Chris Mason at Labour
1:18.5	Party Conference in this episode of newscast?
1:20.9	Newscast.
1:21.9	Newscast from the BBC.
1:23.5	Why can't people buy a house? Look at their wages.
1:26.3	There are many questions on things that are not related to maths.
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