The Week: Starmer’s Budget Defence, Donations, and is Brexit Back?
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The Prime Minister backed Rachel Reeves’ budget on Monday. On the same day, Keir Starmer, not once, not twice, but on three separate occasions spoke about Brexit. We discuss what’s actually going on…
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| 0:21.2 | Hello, here is the episode of newscast that we recorded on Thursday night, which is broadcast |
| 0:25.2 | on BBC One, where me and Chris and friends of the pod chew over some of the big themes and |
| 0:30.6 | stories of the week. And one of our friends of the pod joining us in this episode is former |
| 0:35.7 | Sky News legend, Kay Burley.. Now she has retired from Sky News |
| 0:40.2 | after doing one million minutes plus of live television. That works out as 17,000 hours, which is |
| 0:48.4 | 708 days, which puts my 25 hours, Children in Need really in the shade but it will be intriguing |
| 0:56.2 | to hear Kay's take on the week's news newscast newscast from the BBC fat boy sliver me in the |
| 1:03.7 | classroom doing our violin lessons I was the tappletail in the class can't I have an apology |
| 1:07.6 | please I trust almost nobody then daddy has to sometimes do strong language. Next time in Moscow. I feel delulu with no salulu. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. I'm Chris in the studio. And Vicky in the studio. And a newcomer to newscast, but not to broadcasting. It's Kate Burley. Welcome to the BBC. Thank you. Thank you for making me so welcome. I appreciate it. Does it feel like being behind enemy lines? No, everybody's been very friendly and lovely, but it's certainly, I do feel like the new girl. Yes. I don't know where my pench case is. Which must be a weird feeling for you. |
| 1:45.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:45.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:45.6 | I don't know where the fridge is for the milk, all that sort of stuff. |
| 1:48.5 | So I did 25 hour long live newscast of children in need a couple of weeks ago. |
| 1:53.2 | And it made me think about your one million minutes. |
| 1:55.8 | Because that's how many live audience minutes you've done. |
| 1:58.6 | I'm counting. |
| 1:59.3 | Yeah. live broadcast minutes you've done. I'm counting. Yeah, because isn't it something like, that's like nearly two years. |
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