The After Partygate Report
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Let's be blunt: it says he lied. Adam and Chris are joined by former Conservative advisor, Salma Shah, and the Guardian’s Political Editor, Pippa Crerar, to unpack the Partygate report and discuss what happens next. Author and co-founder of the Women’s Equality Party, Catherine Mayer, whose partner Andy died at the beginning of the pandemic, returns to the podcast three years since she was last on.
Also, mathematician and Maths Appeal podcaster, Bobby Seagull, explains why Rishi Sunak has put up a load of ones and zeros on the door at Downing Street.
Today’s Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming and Chris Mason. It was made by Cordelia Hemming and Miranda Slade. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Ready for a bit of decoding, Chris? |
| 0:07.0 | Oh, yeah, I can't. |
| 0:08.0 | That's just what I love to do at this time of day or no. |
| 0:11.9 | After another quiet week. |
| 0:13.0 | Yeah, Sally. |
| 0:14.0 | So basically my friend sent me this graphic |
| 0:15.9 | from number 10, Downing Street yesterday, |
| 0:18.0 | and it was Rishi Senak going through the famous black door, |
| 0:20.6 | which has a 1 and a 0 on it. |
| 0:22.1 | Does it? |
| 0:23.1 | There were loads of 1 and 0s on it. |
| 0:24.7 | Basically, there was a bit of binary code. |
| 0:26.8 | Oh, right. |
| 0:27.3 | So this is, so I know from the recent trip |
| 0:30.1 | I do to the Prime Minister that this, |
| 0:31.4 | he's Rishi Senak loves this stuff. |
| 0:33.3 | OK, clearly. |
| 0:34.8 | But so I'm just, you've just shown this picture. |
| 0:37.4 | Neither of us speak binary, but luckily we have a friend |
| 0:40.3 | of the podcast who does its famous mathematician Bobby Seagull. |
| 0:43.6 | Here he is doing his decoding of it. |
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