The Met investigates

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The announcement that the Metropolitan Police will now investigate gatherings in Downing Street during lockdown has added to pressure on the prime minister. It comes just as the government prepares for the publication Sue Gray’s report. Adam and Laura are joined by the BBC’s home affairs correspondent, Dominic Casciani, to discuss the latest twists in the story and explain what happens next. Also, after the financial crisis of 2008, the government pumped hundreds of billions of pounds into the economy through quantitative easing, and it’s done something similar during the pandemic. But a new BBC TV documentary says all this extra money has benefitted the rich and led to huge inequality. Former trader Gary Stevenson explains how and why this happened. Today’s Newscast was made by Alison Gee, with John Murphy, Georgia Coan and Alix Pickles. Emma Crowe was the studio director.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, I've always had a bit of a hand-kring to present a phone-in show when there's a lot
0:09.6	of news happening that people have lots of opinions about.
0:12.2	Unfortunately, that doesn't really work on a podcast because either you're asleep or
0:16.1	I'm asleep or I'm recording and you're waiting or you're listening and I've recorded, so
0:20.1	we're never really in the same place at the same time, are we?
0:23.1	But luckily, we've got Nikki Campbell on Five Live who got a wide sample of opinion today
0:28.6	about the latest twist in the party gate story.
0:31.4	I couldn't care less about the partist per se.
0:35.1	It's just the constant lies, it's the extraction, little by little, how many more misjudgment
0:42.3	has he made?
0:43.3	It's always like there's a culture, in Parliament, of drinks at meetings, of just complete
0:49.3	belief that they're better than everyone else and that drinking during the day and whilst
0:53.3	in meetings is that that's just a normal thing to do.
0:55.7	It's just getting a joke now and it's just embarrassing.
0:58.5	I am absolutely over this story.
1:00.7	It is a proxy bit of cake, the man nearly died two months before.
1:04.8	I am so over it.
1:05.8	It's during lockdown, we had a team meeting, there was about 15 of us and it was my 50th
1:11.0	and we had a cake.
1:12.0	It wasn't a party, we were at work.
1:14.0	To me, this is an absolute non-story.
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