Summary
The PM says Peppa Pig World is his "kind of place" in a pork-ward speech today... Adam, Laura and Chris get together to chew it all through. Also, Dr Katya Adler joins from Brussels (to complete the Brexitcast crew) and explains what's been going on with the protests in Europe.
Today’s Newscast was made by Sam Bonham, Rosamund Jones and Georgia Coan. The studio director was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Alison Gee.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, it's one of those classics in the political calendar. |
| 0:08.7 | We're all talking about a speech from a Prime Minister that went wrong, |
| 0:13.7 | which is a great excuse to play this one from 2017, who could forget. |
| 0:18.8 | Our economy is back on track. |
| 0:22.5 | The deficit is back to pre-crisis levels. |
| 0:25.5 | Sounds like my voices in Don't Track. |
| 0:30.1 | We will oversee the biggest expansion in training for doctors and nurses. |
| 0:37.1 | And we... |
| 0:39.5 | And we... |
| 0:43.4 | All I would say is that Theresa May survived as Prime Minister for 20 months |
| 0:48.9 | after that disastrous conference speech. |
| 0:51.8 | So, other than the lesson that history might treat these moments a little bit differently |
| 0:56.3 | from those of us when we're living through them, I hope we remember that lesson |
| 1:00.2 | on tonight's episode of newscast. |
| 1:01.9 | Newscast. |
| 1:02.8 | Newscast from the BBC |
| 1:04.5 | that will take some time before we figure out what our new normal is. |
| 1:08.8 | Now, if that is the argument, then we are going into unprecedented territory. |
| 1:13.1 | Combined with contract tasting, contact tasting, |
| 1:16.6 | tortesting, tracing through... |
| 1:18.8 | Yes, yes, yes. |
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