The Rish List: Sunak’s New Year’s Resolutions
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The Prime Minister sets out plans in his first major speech of 2023.
Former speech writer to David Cameron and Theresa May, Jessica Cunniffe, joins Adam and Chris to go through Rishi Sunak’s first speech of the year, in which he set out his five pledges for the public to judge him on.
And with train services disrupted again this week due to ongoing strikes, the boss of Network Rail, Andrew Haines, tells us how close he thinks he is to a deal with the unions. Today’s episode was presented by Adam Fleming and made by Chris Flynn with Josh Jenkins and Kamilah McInnis. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The senior news editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, something insane has just happened in that I'm on the tube and I've bumped into Chris Mason. |
| 0:10.0 | Hi Chris, happy new year! |
| 0:11.0 | Hello, hello! |
| 0:12.0 | This is the Newcastry intro for the new year. |
| 0:14.0 | This is terrific, done on the Jubilee line. |
| 0:17.0 | Where have you been? |
| 0:18.0 | I have just been in Stratford in East London at the PM's opening New Year Shindig. |
| 0:23.9 | This is so weird. |
| 0:25.0 | Actually, it's quite embarrassing. |
| 0:26.5 | Actually, no one's looking at us. |
| 0:27.6 | I was like, everyone's going to be looking at us, but they're not. |
| 0:29.8 | Have you been working your way down the entire tube trade? |
| 0:33.1 | Basically, I just spend my whole time just looking for you. |
| 0:34.8 | I know, I found you. Right, let's talk about this speech once we're in the studio |
| 0:38.5 | because the sound's not very good here. |
| 0:40.4 | Because it's a very noisy tube train. |
| 0:42.3 | Newscast. |
| 0:43.0 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:44.5 | We will deliver. |
| 0:45.6 | We will deliver. |
| 0:46.6 | We will deliver. |
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