The Week: Grooming Inquiries, Economic Hope and Brexit
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Today, Adam, Chris, Alex and Faisal discuss the government's plan for new inquiries into grooming gangs, how much we should read into some positive economic news this week and why politicians are talking about Brexit again.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, well, our routines are all back in full swing after the Christmas break. |
| 0:10.0 | So we're going to go back to our normal weekly routine on Newscast. |
| 0:13.3 | So this is our review of the big stories of the political week with some friends of the podcast, |
| 0:19.4 | which was broadcast on BBC One on |
| 0:21.6 | Thursday night, but is now here for you to listen to as a podcast edition of Newscast. |
| 0:27.2 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:29.5 | I like landscape. |
| 0:30.5 | I don't think I'm being rude. |
| 0:31.8 | Japping, unemployed people who are overweight. |
| 0:34.3 | That is not the agenda. |
| 0:35.6 | It's the fun police working overtime. |
| 0:37.8 | The star is born, Elon. So hurt that a miracle with us happening. Frankly, I think we need a British |
| 0:43.3 | Trump. Take me down to Downing Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. Hello, it's Adam in the |
| 0:49.3 | newscast studio. And Chris in the studio too. And Alex in the studio. And Faisal also in the studio. |
| 0:54.6 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:55.5 | So we'll dive into British politics in a minute |
| 0:57.2 | because there's a lot has happened today |
| 0:59.0 | and there's a lot to untangle and just explain as well |
| 1:01.7 | because it's quite a bit unclear. |
| 1:04.2 | But before we do that, Chris, on Wednesday night, |
| 1:07.2 | we got together quite late in the evening |
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