The One With Faisal and Rachel Reeves
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The shadow chancellor’s American dream
Economics Editor Faisal Islam is in the hot seat. Labour’s Rachel Reeves has been in New York and Washington to talk about how one of the US administration’s flagship policies has inspired her own economic vision. America’s Inflation Reduction Act will boost the green economy and provide huge subsidies to consumers who buy American-made products. How might a similar scheme work in the UK?
He also gets chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s thoughts.
Faisal also asks Octopus Energy founder Greg Jackson and Andy Palmer, chairman of electric car battery company InoBat, how the plans might work in practice.
Today’s Newscast was presented by Faisal. It was made by Ben Carter with Miranda Slade, Rufus Gray and George Dabby. The technical producer was Dafydd Evans. The senior news editor was Damon Rose.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Right, Rachel Reeves, Shadow Chancellor, hello. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello. |
| 0:08.0 | Good to see you. |
| 0:09.0 | Now, I'm the BBC's economic senator. |
| 0:11.0 | This is my first time hosting newscast. |
| 0:13.0 | It's not your, you've been on a couple of times before. |
| 0:16.0 | Yes, I usually come on straight after budgets. |
| 0:19.0 | So this is a nice opportunity to come in and speak about something other than |
| 0:24.0 | the latest fiscal policies of the government. |
| 0:27.0 | Right, yes. |
| 0:28.0 | It's a sort of long-term plan. |
| 0:30.0 | Before we get into all that, obviously this weekend is a big one for your constituents |
| 0:33.0 | with leads in a bit of bother. |
| 0:35.0 | We're going to live or die on Sunday in terms of the result. |
| 0:39.0 | And all we can try and do is to give them as much opportunity to get the result that they need. |
| 0:45.0 | It's all about this arena, this stadium on Sunday. |
| 0:50.0 | I note that the PM turned up at Southampton and then watched them get relegated. |
| 0:55.0 | Are you going to be at Ellen Road on Sunday? |
| 0:57.0 | I'm not a massive football fan. |
| 1:01.0 | Obviously, I always will lead to United On, but I know there's a lot of politicians |
| 1:06.0 | who feel they need to pretend that they support a football team. |
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