The Fresh Prince of Excheq-Air
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The Chancellor Rishi Sunak talks inflation, energy prices, taxes… and Will Smith.
In Laura's last interview as the BBC's political editor, the chancellor defends his Spring Statement and says being popular is not his priority. He also likens his difficult week to Hollywood star Will Smith's after his wife received unwanted attention. This edition of Newscast was made by Danny Wittenberg, John Murphy and Chris Flynn. The editor was Alison Gee.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | I don't think I've ever felt this nostalgic |
| 0:07.4 | because it's Loracun's Bergs. |
| 0:09.6 | Final hours is BBC political editor. |
| 0:12.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:13.7 | Would you like to be reminded of your first few minutes in the job? |
| 0:16.4 | What do you mean by that? |
| 0:17.4 | Well, we may not have like young and fresh eyes. |
| 0:21.0 | Yeah, we've rated the cine film Archive. |
| 0:24.8 | And this is what we've had. |
| 0:26.6 | Half of the news. |
| 0:27.6 | Well, if you're in our human nature, |
| 0:30.9 | according to the electoral commission, |
| 0:32.3 | makes us rather eager to please more ready to say yes or no, |
| 0:36.3 | whatever the question we are being asked. |
| 0:38.9 | So today, they budged David Cameron into changing the question |
| 0:42.3 | that will be put to us. |
| 0:43.3 | So before the end of the next year, |
| 0:45.3 | voters will be asked not to say yes or no to the EU, |
| 0:49.1 | but whether they want to remain or to leave the European Union. |
| 0:52.9 | Not changing. |
| 0:53.9 | It's very tan, then. |
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