Three King’s Speech Takeaways

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

King Charles has set out the government’s agenda for the year. We look at what it could mean in practice. Adam and Chris are joined by Danny Shaw to discuss plans to bring in tougher sentences on some serious crimes. There were also housing policy plans announced, making it harder for landlords to evict tenants and changes to the leasehold system England and Wales. Vicky Spratt helps make sense of what it means. And, Adam talks to Financial Times technology reporter Cristina Criddle about a new bill the government hopes will pave the way for driverless cars in the UK. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Flynn with Alex Collins, Gemma Roper and Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Matt Hewitt. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Now, Chris, the other Chris who is producing today's episode of newscast has sent me a little note saying,
0:10.1	Start the podcast, Adam and Chris brief pleasantries
0:13.6	Hello Adam, how are you today? This is almost like Rishi Sunak and Kirstarma walking from the House of Commons to the House of Lords
0:20.0	Talking awkwardly knowing full well they're being recorded the whole way to go and
0:24.0	listen to the king open the parliament officially. Yeah and you've got a certain amount of
0:27.5	time to feel before the music kicks in.
0:29.5	Newscast.
0:30.7	Newscast from the BBC. Why can't people buy a house?
0:34.0	Look at their wages.
0:35.0	Do you have any questions on things that are not related to math?
0:37.0	People who say that we were partying simply do not know what they are talking about.
0:41.0	The era of global warming has ended.
0:44.1	The era of global boiling has arrived.
0:46.6	It's the first time ever I've been able to say, well done, Kia.
0:50.4	I'll end by tempting her to update newscast and update this house.
0:54.3	The Prime Minister is not under a desk.
0:57.0	Hello it's Adam in the studio and it's Chris at Westminster and we're talking about the King's speech. I don't know about you Chris. I've found it
1:05.0	quite hard to get used to saying King's Speech because we haven't had one in my
1:08.8	lifetime before. Completely. No, I keep saying the Queen's Speech because that was the shorthand for so so long, wasn't it?
1:15.2	And in sort of journalist, for us, for any kind of journalist really around and working at the moment,
1:20.4	that was how it was always described even last time when the
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