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'WHAT A Day!'

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.46.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Will they / won’t they? All eyes are on Boris Johnson, still... as more MPs call for him to stand down. Laura K and Craig Oliver (ex Director of Comms for David Cameron) pick through the pieces. And, what is really happening in Ukraine right now? The US say that the Russians could attack at any moment. We catch-up with Americast's Anthony Zurcher, as well as Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former Nato Secretary General... Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with John Murphy, Alix Pickles and Ben Cooper. The studio director Hannah Montgomery.

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0:00.0

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0:04.4

Hello, what a day, not my words, but the words of Lindsay Hoyle, the speaker of the House

0:09.3

of Commons at the end of today's Prime Minister's questions.

0:12.0

Prime Minister, just like the room clear, or can we please leave quickly and quietly?

0:21.0

What's the day?

0:26.9

What sort of days it'd been? Well, it started off in a frenzy, basically, of speculation

0:32.5

about Boris Johnson's future, and whether enough MPs would have submitted letters, 54,

0:37.8

to start a vote of no confidence in him.

0:40.6

And then there was a detour of via a Conservative MP leaving the Conservatives to join Labour.

0:45.6

That was pretty dramatic. But I think Wednesday has ended with maybe Boris Johnson's position

0:51.4

looking less insecure than it did at the start of the day. And we'll talk about all the

0:57.6

days events on this episode of newscast.

1:00.9

Newscast from the BBC, that will take some time before we figure out what our new normal

1:06.4

is. Now, if that is the argument, then we are going into unprecedented territory.

1:11.2

Combined, we contract tasting, contact tasting, tortesting, tracing food. Yes, yes, yes.

1:18.4

I'm vegan, so of course I don't like meatball.

1:21.5

Let's make a slide please.

1:25.4

Hello, it's Adam in the studio. And it's Laura in Parliament Square.

1:31.0

Ah, running around, because there's so much news in various locations. And just to make

1:36.2

it even more exciting and to give it that feel of what a day, we're rejoined by David Cameron's

1:41.6

former Director of Communications Craig Oliver, who seems to be wandering around a park.

1:45.2

Hi Craig. I am, I jumped off the tube and have wandered into high parks, so I'm going

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