The End Of Year Political Report Card

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Today, Laura, Paddy and Henry look back at the last parliamentary year with the summer recess on the horizon.

How have the main political parties fared a year on since the general election? And which of them would be top of the class in their school report cards?

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0:00.0	It's our last episode before the summer holidays.
0:08.2	Well, you gave me trouble for saying holidays.
0:10.3	When I said that the MPs were on holiday, you said they're not on holiday.
0:13.6	Well, I gave you trouble for saying that MPs were going on holiday,
0:16.5	because I know that every time we say that, I then get MP saying,
0:19.0	we're not on holiday.
0:20.1	We're working hard on our constituencies,
0:21.7	and maybe we'll sit down in a deck chair for two days.
0:24.1	But I promise you every day I'll be working in my constituency.
0:27.0	So I was preempting being getting stick.
0:31.3	Okay.
0:31.9	So it's a holiday slash working holiday end point.
0:36.5	And we're very glad that you've tuned in for Sunday's newscast
0:39.3	newscast from the BBC he has just compared me to the fat controller did I say that I can't
0:47.1	believe I said that next way this is our for the benefit of earth I'm not personally a huge
0:52.7	Sabrina carpenter fam I don't think I'm being
0:55.5	rude. I like landscapes. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. Hello, it's Laura,
1:02.7	on my own in the studio. And it's Paddy in Harrogate. And it's Henry at home. So, as people head off
1:10.3	into their non-holiday holiday, the recess, to use the technical term,
1:14.6	shall we today have a bit of a report card sort of situation as a, you know, B minus must do better,
1:21.0	A minus marvellous promise.
1:22.9	What do you reckon?
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