The Rish List: Sunak’s New Year’s Resolutions

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K 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
0:04.4	Hello, something insane has just happened that I'm on the tube and I bumped into Chris
0:09.1	Mason, hi Chris, happy new year! Hello, hello!
0:12.1	This is the newscast pre-entral for the new year.
0:14.1	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 BM's opening new year Shindig.
0:24.2	This is so weird and actually it's quite embarrassing and actually no one's looking at us, I was
0:27.8	like everyone's going to be looking at us but they're not. Have you been working
0:31.0	way down the entire tube tray?
0:33.0	They say they just spend my whole time just looking for you, right? You know how I've found you?
0:36.0	Right, let's talk about the speech once we're in the studio because the sand's not very good here
0:40.3	because it's a very noisy tube tray.
0:42.1	Newscast.
0:42.9	Newscast from the BBC.
0:44.5	We will deliver, we will deliver, we will deliver.
0:47.5	Be on the back better.
0:48.7	Blah blah blah, green economy, blah blah blah.
0:51.8	I've absolutely apologised for using the word scone.
0:54.8	Calm down. At least I didn't slap anybody which is good, I'm actually very right-wing.
0:58.8	Has to love Easter.
1:00.2	Baby.
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