Summary
The Foreign Secretary Liz Truss sets out new legislation to rewrite parts of the post-Brexit trade deal. Adam and Katya chew over how the European Union might respond.
Also, Alex Baker, chair of England’s most successful LGBT football club, Stonewall FC, explains the significance of professional footballer Jake Daniels' decision to come out as openly gay.
And, Gordon Corera shows Adam around a new app designed to spot social-networking spies.
Today’s Newscast was made by Tim Walklate, with Miranda Slade and Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Alison Gee.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, hopefully exam season is playing out okay on your household. |
| 0:08.9 | How we're marking it on newscast is getting you to send in noteworthy questions from exam |
| 0:14.2 | season and we're going to get BBC correspondence to try and answer them to see how smart they |
| 0:19.2 | are. |
| 0:20.2 | We've had a message from Avid newscaster Ray Han who said they felt compelled to share |
| 0:24.8 | a typical exam question for your political experts. |
| 0:27.6 | Now none of them are available so Ray Han you're going to get me. |
| 0:31.5 | So I've got my pen. |
| 0:33.4 | I know may turn over my paper. |
| 0:37.0 | To what extent has the current modern conservative party moved towards one nation principles? |
| 0:42.5 | They don't make it easy these days do they? |
| 0:47.2 | This is for 30 marks. |
| 0:48.2 | Okay, right. |
| 0:49.2 | Let's unpack the question. |
| 0:50.8 | One nation that is from disraeli, Tory politician in the 19th century up against the Liberals |
| 0:58.7 | at a time when the country felt very divided between rich and poor and north and south. |
| 1:03.4 | And so it is really said I need to be a prime minister and we need to be a party of one |
| 1:08.0 | nation bringing everyone together. |
| 1:10.2 | So obviously that's got contemporary echoes with Boris Johnson's catchphrase of leveling |
| 1:14.4 | up and uniting the country because that's making the country feel like the opportunities |
| 1:18.8 | in every place are the same as everywhere else which sounds kind of one nationy on the |
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