The Week: The Budget, a Trip to China, and the US Election

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Adam, Chris, Paddy and Stephanie Flanders from Bloomberg discuss potential changes to inheritance tax which could be coming at the budget, why the Foreign Secretary is heading to China and look at the last few weeks of campaigning in the US Presidential election. You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming and Chris Mason. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Anna Harris. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, as is traditional now on Friday, we're going to bring you me and Chris and friends
0:09.6	of the podcast having a chat about what's happened in politics this week. A bit of a review of the
0:15.9	week if you will. We recorded it on Thursday, early evening and it was broadcast on BBC 1 as our newscast TV show but here is a special
0:24.7	podcast version just for you.
0:27.0	Newscast.
0:28.0	Newscast from the BBC. I like landscapes.
0:31.0	You have a bright future behind you. You think you just fell out of a
0:33.7	coconut tree? We're effectively run in this country by a bunch of
0:37.3	childless cat ladies. You don't understand the essence of brat.
0:39.9	It's the fun police working overtime. It's just getting silly now.
0:43.7	Take me down to Downy Street. Let's go have a tour.
0:47.3	Blimey.
0:48.3	Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio.
0:50.5	And Chris at the newscast studio.
0:52.3	And Patty next to Chris in the newscast studio and we're joined by
0:55.8	our old BBC colleague Stephanie Flanders who's now head of economics and
0:59.0	politics at Bloomberg and you host your own podcast which is...
1:01.8	Yes currently Votonomics which which is a spinoff from Stephanomics which in some ways started on the BBC
1:08.0	Of course yes I mean I always think of the financial crisis when we catch up
1:12.2	I know I have that effect on people.
1:15.6	People are like oh good there's bad news coming up. But isn't it interesting though that
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