Thames They Are A-Changin'
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Thames Water is in talks to secure extra funding as the government says it is ready to act in a worst case scenario if the company collapses. Adam is joined by Newsnight’s economics editor Ben Chu to explain why the company is in trouble, and how it could affect the public.
And Chris Stark from the UK Climate Change Committee is in the studio to go through a new report by the body, which concludes that the UK is no longer a world leader. They’re joined by climate scientist Dr Tamsin Edwards.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.1 | Hello, now the reason you've not heard from Chris Mason over the last couple of days |
| 0:08.6 | is that he has almost completely lost his voice. |
| 0:12.5 | He is sounding incredibly gravely, but he had just enough puff left to do a live event |
| 0:20.3 | on the newscast discord server. |
| 0:22.3 | The first time we've done one of those, we chatted for about half an hour about the news |
| 0:25.9 | and newscast has got to interact with us. |
| 0:27.8 | It was really, really interesting and quite good fun and very informative. |
| 0:31.4 | And if that sounds like something you'd like to be involved in, there are lots of links |
| 0:34.7 | to join discord scattered throughout the newscast universe. |
| 0:38.0 | So click on them and get stuck in. |
| 0:40.0 | It's really, really easy and really, really rewarding actually. |
| 0:43.9 | Now, if Chris was here and he did have enough voice, I think the story he'd be talking to |
| 0:48.0 | us about today is Dan Korski. |
| 0:51.8 | He is a former special advisor to David Cameron, when he was prime minister, but lately he's |
| 0:56.5 | been running in the competition to get the conservative nomination to be there candidate |
| 1:02.2 | in the next election for the London mayor. |
| 1:06.3 | But a couple of days ago, he was accused by the TV producer Daisy Goodwin of groping her |
| 1:12.8 | at a meeting in Downing Street a few years ago. |
| 1:15.9 | He has always denied those claims and he continues to deny them, but he put out a statement to |
| 1:20.8 | his supporters on Wednesday afternoon saying that he was withdrawing from the race for |
| 1:25.8 | the Tory nomination. |
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