What can we expect with the infected blood report?
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4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Today, we heard from the government and the Labour party about the infected blood scandal - ahead of the inquiry’s final report being published tomorrow.
Laura and Henry discuss what defence secretary Grant Shapps had to say about the government’s plan to compensate victims and how much they would be prepared to spend - as well as more on defence spending.
And, after forgetting one of Labour’s six pledges, shadow health secretary Wes Streeting tells Laura more about how he’ll deliver on the pledge to cut NHS waiting times. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Laura Kuenssberg and Henry Zeffman. It was made by Tim Walklate with Miranda Slade. The technical producer was Michael Regaard. The editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello. |
| 0:05.7 | Hello. |
| 0:06.7 | It's Sunday and we have just finished the Sunday political programs and there's tons to talk about today. |
| 0:13.7 | Ledges, placards, pledges, vows, dossiers, all of those kinds of things. |
| 0:18.9 | All of those things and obviously that's where you started your program. |
| 0:22.6 | With Grant Shaps, you asked him if he could remember Rishi Sunac's five |
| 0:26.4 | promises from the start of 2023. |
| 0:28.7 | And then this is what happened when we asked Wes Streating |
| 0:31.0 | if he could remember Kieerstormer's first six steps just from this week. |
| 0:36.2 | Economic Stability cut NHS waiting lists, six and a half thousand extra teachers, |
| 0:40.8 | secure border command, great British energy and what's the one I've missed |
| 0:46.9 | I've done out of order oh we can show you if you forget all you're looking in |
| 0:51.4 | your pla here it's. It's got, it's pledge gone. |
| 0:54.0 | There you are. |
| 0:56.0 | There we are. |
| 0:57.0 | Now I've got one here, so. |
| 0:58.0 | Crack down on antisocial behavior. |
| 1:00.0 | The annoying thing is, I was sort of preparing for that question I was still fluffed in it. |
| 1:04.0 | I might just go home now. |
| 1:05.0 | Well we had five out of five and five and six. |
| 1:08.0 | Five out of six. |
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