The Biggest Political Gossip of the Week?
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
As the dust settles on the spring budget, Laura and Adam discuss disquiet among some Cabinet members. And Laura reveals some remarkable Westminster gossip....
Plus, we reflect on Theresa May’s time at Downing Street, as she joins nearly 60 current and former tory MPs that have decided to quit ahead of the next general election. Would she have handled Covid differently if she was still in charge? 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 and Laura Kuenssberg . It was made by Jack Maclaren with Madeleine Drury. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. 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. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello! |
| 0:05.5 | I was going to sing you a song. |
| 0:06.9 | Really? |
| 0:07.9 | To welcome me to Saturday. |
| 0:08.9 | I would just say, reunited and it feels so good, |
| 0:11.0 | but I'm not going to sing it because that would be really |
| 0:13.1 | upsetting for everybody but we could maybe fade it up we could find it in the mix |
| 0:16.9 | do you remember a long time ago I used to find oh I used to find songs on my phone |
| 0:20.8 | and the LK big budget jukebox, but it's awfully nice to be with you Adam Fleming. Yeah, it's great. I mean and it's it's like we've never been apart actually |
| 0:29.2 | just proof of how many years we did this for. Well that's very true, although it did apparently cause a bit of a dilemma for the very big budget |
| 0:38.1 | newscast interior design team. |
| 0:39.8 | Yes, so if you've never seen the TV version of the studio, there's a coffee table in the middle of the studio, and on it, when Laura and Paddy are doing this podcast, there's a picture of me and Chris. And when me and Chris are on it, there's a picture of Laura and Chris and when me and Chris are on it there's a picture of |
| 0:53.4 | Laura and Paddy and so to solve that conundrum we've put both out like the |
| 0:58.8 | little weird like Adam's family that we are it's like a kind of family, what's that film called |
| 1:03.1 | blended when you have the families that was split up and they said again who's the |
| 1:06.6 | step. So we step presenters now or as Paddy my step presenter. |
| 1:10.9 | Oh this is getting labels labels. Labels, labels. Anyway, right, I think we'll talk about actual substance on this episode of |
| 1:16.4 | Newscast. |
| 1:17.4 | Newscast. |
| 1:18.4 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:19.4 | Why can't people buy a house? Look at their wages. |
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