Sunak Goes on the Defensive

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at Rishi Sunak’s promise to spend billions more on defence.

Sunak said UK military spending would rise to 2.5% of national income by 2030. The prime minister was in Poland to pledge £500 million in extra support for Ukraine, but claimed the extra money for defence would put the UK’s defence industry "on a war footing". Adam is joined by former armed forces minister, James Heappey MP.

And, the day after the government’s Rwanda policy passed through Parliament, BBC Home Affairs Correspondent Tom Symonds has been speaking to migrants in northern France who are preparing to cross the Channel to get to the UK. And, the BBC’s Africa correspondent Barbara Plett Usher has been to see where the migrants will stay when they arrive in Rwanda. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Gemma Roper and Sam McLaren. The technical producers were Gareth Jones and Matt Hewitt. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello on today's episode of newscast, we're going to look at the Rwanda legislation,
0:09.5	which you will have heard almost in real time being passed in Parliament on the last episode of
0:13.9	newscast but from the non British political angle we're going to go to
0:18.7	northern France where the migrants set off from and we're going to go to Kigali, the Romanent capital.
0:25.6	But before that we will find out where in the world is Chris Mason.
0:29.2	All on this episode of Newscast.
0:31.6	Newscast. News Newcastle from the BBC.
0:33.0	Hundreds of bald men scrapping over a single broken comb.
0:37.0	He's not a leader.
0:39.0	He is a human weather vein.
0:40.0	Two cheeks of the same backside.
0:43.0	No politicians are listening to what's happening.
0:46.0	We essentially need a bigger bazooka.
0:49.0	Why do you always think that the way you live is better than the way we'll live.
0:52.8	The AI will be able to do everything.
0:54.4	The appalling Willie Wanker experience.
0:56.4	Get a life.
0:59.0	Hello, it's Adam in the studio, and I was here until the late hours of Monday night and then I got to go home.
1:07.3	Chris Mason basically got to go home, have three hours sleep and then go to the airport for
1:11.5	530 to be on the Prime Minister's plane to Warsaw because
1:15.2	the PM is doing a sort of defence-related trip around Europe and Poland was the first stop
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