The Big Political Review of 2024
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Today, Adam is joined by Laura and Chris to talk about the events in British politics that dominated the headlines this year.
They look back at the Rwanda bill, the Conservative leadership election, Labour’s freebies row and the summer riots. And they talk about the political leadership changes across the UK with new first ministers in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming, Chris Mason and Laura Kuenssberg. It was made by Miranda Slade. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, the good thing about newscast being every day of every week of the year is that, well, we all get to experience everything that happens in the news throughout the year, or at least most of it. |
| 0:17.2 | So we thought that me, Chris and Laura could get together and just look back at some |
| 0:22.5 | of the biggest stories that have happened in the UK during all those many, many episodes |
| 0:27.2 | of newscast and kind of be like podcasting ghosts of newscasts past to steal a Christmas metaphor. |
| 0:36.4 | So that's what you're going to hear now. |
| 0:37.9 | I'll look back at all the big things |
| 0:39.7 | or some of the big things that happened in the UK this year. |
| 0:43.2 | And just to say, |
| 0:44.2 | so many of our memories were election-related |
| 0:46.3 | that we've done a whole separate special election look back |
| 0:50.9 | that will be hitting your podcast feeds very soon. |
| 0:53.3 | So here is me, Chris and Laura, looking back at everything else that we feel was important in the UK in 2024. |
| 1:03.0 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:05.4 | Two cheeks of the same backside. |
| 1:08.3 | Well, I don't think I'm that bad at politics. |
| 1:10.4 | People do call me for short, Jenny Leck. |
| 1:12.8 | On reflection, it was a mistake not to stay longer. |
| 1:15.0 | We did it. |
| 1:15.9 | Are you all watched the debate? |
| 1:17.5 | Winning the popular vote was very nice. |
| 1:19.9 | I don't think I'm being rude. |
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