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Newscast

Tax Cut Cut

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.46.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The government has U-turned on plans to scrap the 45p rate of income tax for higher earners, a day after the prime minister committed to them. Chris and Adam are in Birmingham for the Conservative party conference, where Kwasi Kwarteng defended economic plans but admitted there had been “a little turbulence”. Conservative MP and former cabinet minister Grant Shapps joins them, as does Bloomberg’s Stephanie Flanders. Newscast was hosted by Adam Fleming and political editor Chris Mason. This episode of Newscast was made by Tim Walklate with Miranda Slade and Chris Flynn. The technical producer was Emma Crowe and the editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:07.1

Hello, from Birmingham, I'm standing outside the Conservative Party conference.

0:10.4

You might be able to hear the distant sound of people on loud hailers.

0:15.0

There's quite a few protesters and Steve, the stop Brexit man,

0:18.4

who we know from many years of campaigning, is playing the Benny Hill theme shoot every now and then.

0:22.8

Which apparently you can hear from quite a long way away.

0:25.3

Anyway, I'm in a really long, very slow moving,

0:28.6

but very good nature cue to pick up my badge to get into the conference.

0:38.3

And I've made it inside.

0:39.4

Thank you to the very friendly, efficient security people.

0:42.3

I had to watch Quasicore,

0:43.4

telling the Chancellor's speech on my phone on the BBC News app,

0:47.1

because I didn't get in time to see it,

0:48.7

although apparently the cue to get into it was so massive,

0:50.6

I probably wouldn't have got into it anyway.

0:52.3

It was interesting because there was a bit of a speech that was previewed in advance

0:56.5

over the weekend saying about how we've got to stick to the plan.

0:59.8

And when it came to him actually giving the speech,

1:01.6

that line wasn't in there.

1:02.9

And you can see why?

1:03.9

Because on Monday morning, during the breakfast TV and radio shows,

1:08.2

he ditched part of the plan,

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