We're on the bus with Boris Johnson - and Labour's big broadband promise

Calling Peston: The ITV News Politics Podcast

ITV News

News, Government, Politics

4.3 • 179 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Today's campaign can be summed up with two B's: broadband and (the Tory) bus. There's been loads of talk about Labour's £20 billion pledge to provide free full-fibre internet access across the UK by 2030, which the party says would be funded by renationalise part of BT. The Tories and Lib Dems have said the scheme is unaffordable. We chat to our correspondent Libby Wiener who spoke to Jeremy Corbyn in Lancaster today - he told her "It is affordable, and it's got to be affordable because our country needs it." Is the policy a gamechanger? As for the Conservatives, Boris Johnson launched the party's battle bus in Greater Manchester today. Robert Peston got on the bus to speak to the prime minister in his first sit-down interview of the campaign. We bring you the key parts of that interview - watch it in full at youtube.com/itvnews. And Daniel and Shehab take a look at who's up and who's down at the end of week two of the campaign.

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0:00.0	This is a podcast, political broadcast on behalf of ITV News.
0:07.0	Welcome to episode 8 of our daily dash through the political permutations of the 2019 general election campaign.
0:14.0	I'm Daniel Cuyot. To my left is Shihab Khan, and on today's edition of Calling Peston, the man himself is with the Prime Minister
0:21.0	Boris Johnson on a bus in Blackpool.
0:23.5	Jeremy Corbyn is in Lancaster, promising to give every home and business free full fibre
0:28.5	broadband by 2030.
0:30.9	And Ed Davy from the Lib Dems is in Leeds talking about the economy.
0:35.0	But first Dan, we're not in our usual place, are we? No, the building we record in normally has been shut down because of it, is it a gas leak?
0:43.3	It's a gas leak, so we've all been pushed away into what is luxury compared to what we're used to.
0:49.3	Yeah, we've dashed across town and we're in the ITV, well ITN building.
0:53.3	We should tweet a picture of it.
0:56.5	It's quite nice.
0:57.5	It's going to a little studio.
0:58.5	You've got your own, I'm on this sofa, I've got my like armchair.
1:00.5	I'm enjoying it.
1:01.5	It's lovely, I tell you what.
1:02.5	It beats that cupboard that we're usually in.
1:04.0	It does beat the cupboard. Yeah, same. I don't like being this far away from you. No, and we don't know what state the cup is in.
1:12.6	That's true.
1:13.6	We don't know what's happened yet.
1:14.6	This, you know what, yesterday could have been the last time we ever recorded in that
1:17.6	cupboard if this gas league isn't sorted out.
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