What's The Point Of COP?
Newscast
BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today, Adam is joined by the BBC’s climate editor Justin Rowlatt, and Daniela Relph senior royal correspondent, to discuss Keir Starmer and Prince William’s speeches at COP30.
The Prince and the Prime Minister gave speeches that were slightly at odds with each other as Prince William called upon “the power of urgent optimism” whilst the PM warned that the “consensus is gone” on climate change.
Plus Adam is joined by Alex who’s been deep diving into Reform led local councils and what their first six months of governance can tell us about what a Reform led UK government could look like.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | Hello, loads of world leaders, although with some notable absences, are heading to the UN |
| 0:10.8 | climate change conference in Baleem on the edge of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. |
| 0:15.3 | Now, long-term listeners of this podcast will know these UN climate change conferences are |
| 0:19.8 | conferences of the parties shortened to |
| 0:22.0 | cop, which means at this time of year you get loads of terrible puns about good cop, bad cop. |
| 0:28.8 | I'm going to make a pledge to you. We will not have any bad cop puns. In fact, we will have no |
| 0:35.3 | cop puns at all on newscast's continuing coverage of this |
| 0:39.4 | important international diplomatic event. So there will be no puns, good or bad, based on cop. |
| 0:45.8 | In this episode of Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. Fat boy sliver me in the classroom doing |
| 0:52.5 | our violin lessons. I was the tappletail in the class. |
| 0:55.0 | Can I have an apology, please? |
| 0:56.3 | I trust almost nobody. |
| 0:57.9 | Then daddy has to sometimes do strong language. |
| 1:00.4 | Next time in Moscow. |
| 1:02.1 | I feel delulu with no solulu. |
| 1:03.9 | Take me down to Downey Street. |
| 1:05.7 | Let's go have a tour. |
| 1:07.4 | Blimey. |
| 1:09.0 | Hello, it's Adam in the Newscast studio, and shortly I'll be joined by Alex Forsyth, |
| 1:12.8 | who's been looking at what reform UK have been up to in those English councils they seized |
| 1:17.2 | control of in the last local elections. And also what that might mean for a reform government, |
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