The Week: Mandelson Backtracks, Badenoch v Patel and Heathrow Expansion
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Today, Adam, Chris, Alex and Faisal discuss whether Lord Mandelson will be approved as Ambassador to the US, a disagreement in the shadow cabinet and whether Rachel Reeves’ plans for growth will work.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:05.7 | Hello. |
| 0:06.1 | This week's gimmick on Newscast, The Podcast, |
| 0:08.3 | was politicians appearing in other things |
| 0:11.5 | in honour of the speaker being on Amherdale's 10,000th episode. |
| 0:15.8 | Do you have a favourite celebrity political cameo? |
| 0:18.5 | Does it have to be a politician? |
| 0:19.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:20.8 | He can't just be an actor, that's just their job. I feel like this week, in light of he... celebrity political cameo. Does it have to be a politician? Yeah. |
| 0:21.4 | It can't just be an actor. |
| 0:22.2 | That's just their job. |
| 0:26.0 | I feel like this week, I feel like this week, in light of his funeral, I should say John Prescott and Gavin and Stacey. |
| 0:27.4 | Very good. |
| 0:28.0 | At the wedding. |
| 0:28.6 | Very good. |
| 0:29.0 | Wasn't it? |
| 0:29.6 | When I am a big Gavin and Stacey fan, so. |
| 0:31.7 | What was he doing a man of Chorley, a man of the Red Rose County doing in Yorkshire? |
| 0:38.3 | Oh, you mean, what was a Lancasterian doing in Yorkshire? |
| 0:41.2 | Yeah, so what was it? |
| 0:41.9 | No, no, no, he's coming from a very Yorkshire perspective here. |
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