Summary
Today, we look at the suspension of a Tory MP after claims he made a late night call to ask for money to pay off "bad people".
Mark Menzies "strongly" disputes the claims, but has had the whip removed amid allegations that he misused party funds and abused his position. Adam and Chris discuss with Newsnight political editor Nick Watt and Bloomberg associate editor Ailbhe Rea.
Plus, Josh Widdicombe tells Adam and Chris all about his experiences trying to become a local news reporter, for the second series of TV show Hold the Front Page.
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. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Gemma Roper. The editor is Sam Bonham.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, I'm just heading home after recording today's episode of newscasts, which we did between |
| 0:08.6 | about six and seven p.m. on Thursday, and in the meantime, there's been some big breaking news from |
| 0:13.9 | Scottish politics and so you get it kind of like in the audio version of black and |
| 0:17.6 | white I'm just gonna read out what the BBC news website says about it it says |
| 0:20.8 | it says the husband of former first minister Nicholas Sturgeon has been |
| 0:24.8 | charged in connection with the embezzlement of funds from the Scottish National |
| 0:28.2 | Party. Peter Murrell 59 was taken into custody at 913 on Thursday morning and was questioned by |
| 0:34.4 | police Scotland detectives. He was previously arrested as a suspect on the 5th of |
| 0:38.4 | April 2023 before being released without charge and then the website just goes on to remind people |
| 0:43.9 | that he was the party's chief executive, |
| 0:46.4 | but he resigned from that job in March 2023. |
| 0:49.9 | Now we will obviously cover the reverberations |
| 0:52.1 | of that story on future episodes of newscast, but in the meantime here's the episode of newscast that we recorded early evening on Thursday before this news broke. |
| 1:01.0 | Chris and I were joined by some friends of the podcast to chew over |
| 1:04.3 | other things that had happened in the news on Thursday and also we got a visit from |
| 1:08.7 | Josh Whiddicham. Great comedian, podcaster extraordina, and you may remember this, |
| 1:14.0 | amateur local newspaper reporter, a beat he has returned to for another series of his TV show. |
| 1:21.0 | So that's what we discussed on the episode of Newscast that we made earlier. |
| 1:24.4 | Newscast. |
| 1:25.4 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:27.2 | Hundreds of bald men scrapping over a single broken comb. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.