The Real Rachel Reeves + An Update on Kate
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4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at whether Labour’s plans for the economy are substantially different to the government’s or not. And we get an update on the Princess of Wales.
The shadow chancellor told Laura she would be "methodically" looking at ways to pay for Labour's existing spending pledges. But Reeves did not rule out making cuts in some areas. So how different are Labour’s plans to the government’s? Adam and Laura discuss with chief political correspondent Henry Zeffman.
And the first official photo of the Princess of Wales since her surgery has been released by Kensington Palace. Will this end some of the more extreme theories around the princess’s absence from the public stage?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, Laura and hello Henry. |
| 0:07.2 | Hi Henry. |
| 0:08.2 | So last night I was at my friend Tom's birthday party |
| 0:11.6 | and he's a very good amateur poet and he did a lovely poem saying thank you to |
| 0:16.1 | everyone who'd come to the party. Happy birthday Tom. But he's also a big newscast fan and an even bigger |
| 0:21.2 | fan of Sunday with Laura Coonsburg. |
| 0:23.4 | Even happier birthday Tom. |
| 0:24.4 | So I thought why not combine all those things together and do a poem about this week's |
| 0:29.1 | Sunday with Laura Coonsburg? |
| 0:30.4 | Oh my God. |
| 0:31.1 | Here we go, are you ready? Eat your heart out front row. White Howard's double-barreled chef on Sunday with Laura Kay. Politicians' |
| 0:40.0 | exaggerations gonna get slayed. But first is breaking news, a picture of recovering |
| 0:44.7 | Kate, but with all the Twitter gossip, did it come too late? Rachel Reeves bets all on economic |
| 0:50.4 | growth. Vicky Atkins asked why NHS productivity sloweth. |
| 0:54.8 | But wait, this weekend episode has no pad. |
| 0:57.6 | Fear not, newscasters, you can always call up ad. |
| 1:00.3 | I think that's extremely good Tom and we all say one and all newscasters happy |
| 1:08.9 | birthday Tom I was going to try and think of something that rammed but I can't so happy birthday |
| 1:14.0 | Adam I think what we need is Tom for our next episode to rate your poem. |
| 1:19.4 | Okay or I'm just wondering when Henry you'll know this when when did they pick the next poet laureate |
| 1:23.7 | is it like I think aren't they on 10 year terms is that is that and it's been Simon |
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