State Reforms + the State of Reform
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Today, we hear from Ukrainians as their leader gets ready for another big week of peace talks and diplomacy.
Laura, Paddy and Henry also discuss government plans to overhaul the civil service. Plus, they assess Reform UK’s “infighting” following the suspension of an MP.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | So here we are with a lot of news and Henry Zephman back from a three-week break. |
| 0:09.6 | You've missed the world order changing, Henry. |
| 0:12.5 | Yeah, it was quite a surreal thing to witness on a nine-hour time difference, |
| 0:17.1 | occasionally waking up to discover the way in which Donald Trump had decided to break the, sort of shake the international kaleidoscope that day. |
| 0:28.0 | But shake it, he did. |
| 0:29.4 | And it is fascinating being back in Westminster and watching all the ways that our politicians and our government and Kirstemer in particular are racing to keep up and adapt. |
| 0:39.0 | Well, let's get on with this Sunday's newscast because there's tons to talk about. |
| 0:43.3 | Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:45.6 | I like landscapes. I don't think I'm being rude. |
| 0:47.9 | Japping, unemployed people who are overweight. That is not the agenda. |
| 0:51.7 | It's the fun police working overtime. |
| 0:53.8 | The star is born |
| 0:54.8 | Elon. So hurt that a miracle let this happen. Frankly, I think we need a British Trump. Take me down |
| 1:00.6 | to Downing Street. Let's go have a door. Blimey. It's Laura in the studio. It's Paddy next |
| 1:05.6 | you. And is Henry at home? And welcome back, Henry. It's very, very nice to have you. So we are |
| 1:10.8 | recording this at 1053 on Sunday morning. |
| 1:13.4 | We keep doing these time checks more commonly these days because of the, I suppose, |
| 1:17.6 | very unpredictable nature of the White House. |
| 1:19.3 | So if something huge has happened today and we don't talk about it, then apologies if you're |
| 1:23.5 | listening after the fact, but we're recording before 11 a.m. So if we are rounding up the Sunday journalism, we could do it in two or three areas. |
| 1:31.7 | One, Ukraine, which we'll talk about in a minute. |
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