The Spin Doctor Will See You Now

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Two former communications directors, for both Labour and Conservative governments, say they would struggle to spin their way out of the situation Liz Truss is in. Alastair Campbell, who worked for Tony Blair, says Tory MPs are telling him they want her to go. And Craig Oliver, who worked for David Cameron, says it’s possible she won’t be prime minister at Christmas. Also, Marianna Spring, Americast host and disinformation and social media correspondent, gives us an update on her investigation into what US voters are being fed in their social media feeds ahead of elections. This episode of Newscast is presented by the BBC’s political editor Chris Mason and political correspondent Alex Forsyth. It was made by Chris Flynn and Danny Wittenberg. The assistant editor is Alison Gee. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.8	It was a little bit disorientating, wasn't it, for some newscasters,
0:09.1	listening to us this morning.
0:11.8	Yeah, because for those who don't know, newscast goes out on BBC Radio 5 Live super early
0:18.0	in the morning. And because Adam is off gall of hunting somewhere wonderful,
0:21.6	still we miss you Adam, please come back.
0:24.6	Rachel Burden and Rick Edwards, who are the BBC Radio 5 Live Brexit presenters?
0:29.6	Were hosting newscasts last night, which was then played out on 5 Live this morning?
0:34.6	And that meant that one or two people who were listening to 5 Live at the crack of dawn
0:38.2	and presumably up early for a particular reason to get to a particular place
0:42.0	had a bit of a brain scramble. David Sandford tweeted,
0:45.2	totally confused me, I put the radio on at 4.30 in the morning,
0:48.0	heard you, this is in response to a Rachel tweet.
0:50.8	Thought my clock was wrong, got up, had a shower, went downstairs for breakfast,
0:55.1	put the radio back on, and it was the money programme,
0:58.0	let's wake up to money that's on at 5 o'clock in the morning or 5 live.
1:00.7	Lost a couple of hours sleep and I am now disorientated, never take things for granted.
1:05.4	David Apologies, I was on with Rick and Rachel last night, and to think that you were listening
1:10.8	to us a lot, blabberling away at 20 to 5 in the morning and you probably thought it was,
1:15.0	I don't know, whatever time you'd say you were allowed for.
1:16.8	Hang on, no, hang on there Chris, because I am not sure that David is the only one that's
1:20.6	had a bit of a clock issue this morning.
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