Sticking with Prit?
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
As Laura learns that Home Secretary Priti Patel appears to have been found in breach of the ministerial code - usually enough to quit Government - what will the Prime Minister do?
Fergus is back - and while he might not be able to promise Adam and Chris the festivities they were hoping for this Christmas - he can bring more exciting vaccine news, this time about the Oxford-AstraZeneca study.
And the gang are joined by former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson, to talk leadership, lawsuits, and Christmas card lists.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | We are going to be joined on this episode of newscast by the former deputy leader of the Labour Party, |
| 0:09.7 | Tom Watson. Hello, Tom. |
| 0:11.3 | Hi, how you doing? |
| 0:12.4 | Very well, how you doing? |
| 0:13.0 | Very well, thank you. |
| 0:14.0 | And on this episode we're going to, like everyone is doing, speculate about what Christmas might be like. |
| 0:18.5 | So we thought we'd get in the Christmas mood and start talking about who's on our Christmas card lists? |
| 0:24.0 | I haven't even thought about it yet. |
| 0:27.0 | I mean, they used to be about 50,000 people on my Christmas card list. |
| 0:31.0 | Really? |
| 0:32.0 | Well, I used to ride to every labor councillor because I just figured no one ever |
| 0:37.6 | gives them credit for doing any work and the least they could do is get a Christmas card |
| 0:41.2 | off the deputy leader in the label party. |
| 0:43.0 | Well, we were hoping we could speculate about who's on your or not on your Christmas |
| 0:46.8 | card list this year. We've got a quick fire list. Where'd you send a Christmas card to, and |
| 0:51.6 | this is a combination of people that you are friends with or |
| 0:54.1 | maybe not friends with. Rupert Murdoch. I haven't got his address and no. Well I won't |
| 0:59.4 | send him on anyway would I but I'm wish you all the best for Christmas. |
| 1:02.2 | A spirit. |
| 1:04.6 | Emily and Mike Levis, what about that pair? |
| 1:06.7 | I love those two, yeah. |
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