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The Hunt Is On

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.46.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The Chancellor ditches almost all of PM Liz Truss's tax cuts announced in the government's mini-budget three weeks ago. The BBC's Alex Forsyth hosts Newscast, and chats to the BBC's Ben Chu, as well as Charlotte Ivers from Times Radio, and Gavin Barwell, the former Downing Street Chief of Staff to Theresa May. Today’s Newscast was presented by Alex Forsyth, BBC News political correspondent, and made by Tim Walklate. The producers were Miranda Slade and Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Russell Newlove. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:04.3

Hello, it's Alex Forsyth, BBC Political Correspondent here.

0:08.4

I'm not in the usual newscast studio.

0:11.2

In fact, I am in a studio in BBC Radio Coventry and Warwickshire.

0:16.2

They've lent us one today because this morning I was on my way to London.

0:19.9

I was due to be presenting newscasts from our usual studio in Broadcasting House.

0:23.7

Got a phone call from the BBC bosses.

0:25.4

They were like, hold your horses.

0:26.9

This is a massive day in Westminster.

0:28.9

We need you to get out there, speak to folk, find out what on earth people are making of

0:33.2

what is going down.

0:34.2

So off I headed to Naneetan, reason I went there.

0:36.9

Well, it's what we call in the jargon, a bellweather seat.

0:39.5

So conservative at the moment that has been a labour seat in the past,

0:42.9

tends to swing with the national political picture.

0:46.0

And what I wanted to find out was what people were making of what was essentially a massive

0:51.5

U-turn by the government again.

0:53.8

Because we heard from the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, effectively ditching some of Liz Truss'

0:58.2

central policies on tax and speaking to the people of Naneetan, I asked some whether

1:02.8

or not the Prime Minister could really stay in her job.

1:06.3

She needs to go, but who replaces her?

1:10.9

That's the question.

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