Summary
A public inquiry is coming, but not until the spring of 2022. Boris Johnson promises lessons will be learnt, but what should the scope of the inquiry be? We speak to Professor Sir Ian Kennedy who has chaired public inquiries and Newsnight’s Nick Watt on the political fallout. The nurse who was given a shout-out by Dua Lipa at the BRITS tells us how she found out about the honour. And the government announces beefed up measures to regulate social media companies to protect us from online harm. The BBC’s tech correspondent Jane Wakefield guides us through them.
Today’s Newscast was made by Maz Ebtehaj with Danny Wittenberg and Alix Pickles. The Studio Director was Ben Andrews. Assistant Editor was Emma Close. Dino Sofos is the Editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, did you watch the Brit Awards? |
| 0:07.4 | They were very different from usual |
| 0:09.1 | in that they were very, very spaced out and there weren't that many people there because it was part of the |
| 0:15.2 | government's events research program to see if live events can come back safely. |
| 0:20.0 | But some things never change, which is that there's always a bit of a political element |
| 0:25.6 | there and this year it was Julie Pah who dedicated her Brit award to a medical legend but also made a bit of a political point as she did it. |
| 0:36.5 | I've chosen that my best British female of the year is Dame Elizabeth Anieu. She has also said that there's a |
| 0:45.1 | massive disparity between gratitude and respect for frontline workers because |
| 0:50.2 | it's very good to clap for them but we need to pay them. |
| 0:54.1 | There was also lots of government ministers in the audience watching so they will have heard |
| 0:58.8 | that. |
| 0:59.8 | Now Dame Elizabeth Annie Onwu is actually Professor Dame Elizabeth and she's |
| 1:04.4 | emeritus professor of nursing at the University of West London after a very long |
| 1:08.7 | and illustrious nursing career and by showbiz magic she's with us now. Hello Dame Elizabeth. |
| 1:16.0 | Oh hello! Hello! Now before we dive into the showbiz bit let's do the medical bit. Can you just |
| 1:21.9 | tell us some of the things that |
| 1:23.2 | you achieved over that amazing career and I know you're a very modest person but |
| 1:27.2 | just just blow your trumpet this time. What I'm really proud about my nursing and |
| 1:30.7 | health visiting career was becoming the very first sickle cell nurse |
| 1:35.5 | counselor in in this country in 1979 that's that's probably my proudest |
| 1:41.8 | achievement actually. |
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