Summary
Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak go head to head in the race to be prime minister, after Penny Mordaunt was knocked out of the Conservative leadership contest. Adam and Chris are joined by Charlotte Ivers, political correspondent at Times Radio, to profile the two candidates.
Also, Greg James tells Adam why he’s been kicked off the Radio 1 Breakfast show.
This episode of Newscast was made by Tim Walklate with Chris Flynn and Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Alison Gee.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, tell you what, this whole change of leadership thing is getting quite infectious. |
| 0:09.2 | It's not just the conservatives doing it now. |
| 0:11.5 | This morning, this happened on Radio One. |
| 0:14.4 | Someone from NewsBees just come in my studio and handed me a piece of paper, so I've been |
| 0:19.1 | told to read this out on air. |
| 0:21.0 | It's a statement from BBC Radio One. |
| 0:23.7 | It says, Radio One, a kicking Greg James off the Radio One breakfast show with immediate |
| 0:29.3 | effect. |
| 0:31.0 | Greg was partway through presenting this morning's show from Brighton, but is currently being |
| 0:35.1 | removed from his studio there. |
| 0:37.8 | Greg has lost his Radio One show. |
| 0:40.1 | He'll have the chance to win it back by completing a challenge. |
| 0:44.1 | Radio One will release details of the challenger 8.15am this morning. |
| 0:49.6 | This very moment, a new team are taking over Radio One breakfast from BBC HQ in London. |
| 0:55.4 | Bell hosts the show until further notice. It's now time for the Scott Mills show. |
| 1:00.4 | Yes! |
| 1:03.8 | Radio One breakfast. |
| 1:06.5 | Hick one, the Scott Mills. |
| 1:09.0 | And we are on. |
| 1:11.8 | And Greg is here now joining us from what looks like a sort of like pop-up temporary studio |
| 1:16.6 | in a sort of, is that, where are you? |
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