"Totally f***ing hopeless"
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
PM brands Matt Hancock 'hopeless' in texts revealed by Dominic Cummings.
"Wtf do we do?" might have been the question the Prime Minister was asking himself this morning when Dominic Cummings decided to leak their private Whatsapp messages. Laura and Adam chat about that blog post.
As inflation rises across the UK to 2.1%, above what was predicted, the BBC's Colletta Smith explains what the numbers mean, and why it matters.
Plus, is it better for the environment to cycle or take the tube? On the day that the Committee on Climate Change releases another damning report into the government’s response to climate change, Chief Executive of the CCC Chris Stark tells Adam how we can change our behaviour to support the environment.
Today’s Newscast was made by Maz Ebtehaj with Danny Wittenberg, Georgia Coan and Ben Cooper. The Studio Director was NicK Jones. Dino Sofos is the Editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, it's another great day in the history of Prime Minister's texting. |
| 0:09.4 | Do you remember when David Cameron had some of his texts release and he thought |
| 0:13.3 | Loll meant lots of love. So he famously said sorry your horse died, |
| 0:18.4 | Loll. Well Boris Johnson is a user of WTF, because that is what he messaged to Dominic |
| 0:26.4 | Cummings in the height of the coronavirus crisis when he and Dom Cummings were |
| 0:31.8 | saying that Matt Hancock the Health Secretary was bleeping useless. |
| 0:37.1 | That is what we'll discuss on this edition of Newscast. |
| 0:39.3 | Newscast. |
| 0:40.3 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:41.9 | It will take some time before we figure out what our new normal is. |
| 0:46.0 | Now if that is the argument, then we are going into unprecedented territory. |
| 0:50.0 | Combined with contact tasting, testing, tracing for you. |
| 0:56.0 | Yes, yes, yes. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm a vegan, so of course I don't like meatballs. |
| 1:01.0 | Next slide please. |
| 1:02.0 | Blair, Blair, Blair, Blair. |
| 1:03.0 | Lose, lose, lose. |
| 1:06.0 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio. |
| 1:08.0 | And it's Laura not in the studio at home. |
| 1:10.0 | Hello. |
| 1:11.0 | Are you someone seriously typing an email while recording this |
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