What Do The Riots Tell Us About The Far Right?

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Today we look at who was involved in organising the riots across the UK.

Adam is joined by Investigations Correspondent Daniel De Simone and Chief Political Correspondent Henry Zeffman to chat about what the riots across the country tells us about the far right.

And, what the latest government borrowing figures might mean for Rachel Reeves’ first budget as Chancellor.

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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Gray with Kris Jalowiecki and Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello on today's episode of newscast, we're going to have a chat with our colleagues
0:09.5	about what we've learned about the riots that happened in England and Northern Ireland in the wake
0:15.2	of the Southport attacks a few weeks after they happened and after we've had quite a few court
0:21.8	appearances by the people involved.
0:24.3	And then we'll kind of broaden that out to just what does that tell us about the phenomenon
0:28.4	of the far right or the extreme right in the UK in 2024.
0:33.3	And because Henry Zefman, chief political correspondent
0:36.0	is back from his holidays, it's a chance
0:37.9	to catch up with some of today's politics as well.
0:40.1	So that is what you will hear on this episode of Newscast.
0:43.0	Newscast.
0:44.0	Newscast from the BBC.
0:46.0	The exit poll is predicting a labor landslide.
0:49.0	We did it.
0:50.0	And before you know it, you have a bright future behind you.
0:53.2	I really don't know what he said at the end of their sentence.
0:55.4	Joe, you did such a great job.
0:57.2	You answered every question.
0:59.1	Take me down to Downey Street.
1:00.8	Let's go have a tour.
1:02.7	Blimey.
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