Who Is Actually In Charge Of The Country?
Newscast
BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Today, Laura and Paddy ask who in charge of the country as the Prime Minister’s authority is again in question.
From backbenchers, to ministers to the markets - who is actually driving this government? Laura and Paddy look to find the answers.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Patty, who's in charge of you? |
| 0:06.3 | Well, I mean, the answer to that is everyone at the BBC sings to me by the conversations I have. |
| 0:14.1 | Tremendous. I thought you were going to say, you are, of course. |
| 0:17.0 | That's the dream, but I know what you're making the link for. It's who's in charge of the country, isn't it? |
| 0:22.5 | It is. Who's in charge of the country? So this week with Kirstammer booting out some MPs and with all the things that have happened in the last few weeks, with the markets exerting huge force over the government. It feels like as politicians start to back up for this summer, |
| 0:38.0 | quite a decent question to ask. |
| 0:40.3 | Which will do on this Saturday edition of Newscast. |
| 0:44.3 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:46.3 | He has just compared me to the fat controller. |
| 0:49.3 | Did I say that? I can't believe I said that. Next question. |
| 0:53.3 | This is R for the benefit of Earth. I'm not personally |
| 0:56.6 | a huge Sabrina carpenter fam. I don't think I'm being rude. I like landscapes. Take me down to Downey Street. |
| 1:03.0 | Let's go have a tour. Blimey. It's Laura in the studio. It's Patty in the old Swan Hotel in Harrogate. |
| 1:09.9 | And I'm sure the Old Swan Hotel in Harrogate has lots of reasons why you would want to be there anyway. |
| 1:15.5 | But why are you there today? |
| 1:17.3 | Well, we're going to be meeting the creator of Reacher, Jack Reacher, Lee Child, |
| 1:21.7 | who handed this famous character over to his brother, Andrew. |
| 1:25.4 | So we've come for the opportunity at its marvellous festival |
| 1:28.2 | to meet the child's. That is very exciting. He is a huge UK success story and writer of many a |
| 1:36.5 | crime romp and has spawned that also very excellent TV series too. So that will be something |
| 1:41.7 | excellent to listen out to on Broadcasting House tomorrow. |
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