The Week: Workers’ Rights, Tax Talk and Tory Leadership Drama

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Adam and Chris are joined by Katy Balls, Political Editor of the Spectator, and Patrick Maguire, The Times’ Columnist, to discuss all the political news of the week.

They discuss the government’s much-previewed package on workers’ rights, hints about what may be in the Chancellor’s first budget later this month, and relive the drama of the Tory leadership race narrowing to the final two.

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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Miranda Slade. 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.
0:04.7	Hello, as has become traditional on a Friday,
0:08.0	you're now going to hear the episode of newscast
0:10.2	we recorded for BBC 1 on Thursday night which is definitely worth listening to
0:15.1	because it's a review of what's been happening in politics this week and also some of the other stuff that's
0:20.4	around so that's what you'll hear now on this episode of
0:23.0	newscast. Newscast from the BBC I like landscapes you have a bright future
0:28.6	behind you you think you just fell out of a coconut tree. We're effectively run in this country
0:33.6	by a bunch of childless cat ladies.
0:35.3	We don't understand the essence of Brad.
0:36.8	It's the fun police working overtime.
0:39.2	It's just getting silly now.
0:40.7	Take me down to Downey Street.
0:42.3	Let's go have a tour. Blimey.
0:45.0	Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio.
0:48.0	And Chris in the newscast studio.
0:49.0	And today we're joined by some friends of the podcast.
0:51.0	Here is Katie Balls, political editor of the spectator
0:53.6	hello hello how's it going with your new boss going pretty smoothly so far I
0:58.7	mean early days maybe you should ask him okay you can be your next guest I think he may actually be coming on newscasts soon.
1:05.0	Michael Gove we're talking about obviously.
1:07.0	And also Patrick McGuire from The Times.
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