Who is Rishi Sunak?
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Newscast profiles the Tory leadership candidate.
How have his politics been shaped by his education and jobs? How is he viewed in his Yorkshire constituency? What does he like to eat and drink apart from Coca-Cola? In this Newscast special Adam is joined by Rishi Sunak’s friend, and fellow Conservative MP in Yorkshire, Kevin Hollinrake, podcaster Jimmy McLoughlin, who has known him since he became an MP, and Charlotte Ivers, Political Correspondent at Times Radio, to profile the man who might be our next prime minister.
Today’s episode was produced by Clare Williamson with Daniel Wittenberg and Alix Pickles. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.9 | Hello and welcome to another one of our profiles of the people who could be about to become |
| 0:10.8 | Prime Minister. We've already delved into the life and times of Liz Truss. Today it's |
| 0:16.8 | her rival, the former chancellor, Rishi Sunak. Now you know that I love a quiz. I also |
| 0:23.6 | love Star Wars. So a few years ago when Nick Robinson interviewed Rishi Sunak on political |
| 0:30.2 | thinking, Nick's podcast, long before he was super duper a list famous, you can imagine |
| 0:36.2 | my amazement when they did a Star Wars quiz. |
| 0:38.6 | Right. Quick quiz then. In episode one, which politician loses a vote of no confidence? |
| 0:43.8 | Oh, uh, Senator Valoran. Chancellor Valoran. |
| 0:47.6 | Correct. Which planet becomes the subject of a trade war between the Senate and the trade |
| 0:52.3 | Federation? Naboo. Which Intergalactic Union does count do whose separate movement want |
| 0:58.3 | to leave? Oh, um, which sorry, which the black, the black, the black, the black, the |
| 1:03.5 | Republic. Yes. Correct. Which these are all by the, those questions are all episodes |
| 1:07.9 | one, two and three, which are for true fans. Yeah. That's why we set them. We may define |
| 1:13.0 | which controversial high ranking strategist becomes the commander of the death star. |
| 1:18.4 | Come on. Well, it's given a talking. Yes. Go for it. So for one more to go. All right. |
| 1:23.2 | After initial success, the rebel alliance, flee to which icy planet where they're attacked |
| 1:27.8 | by the Empire, hot. Five other five. You may have no other proof. There we go. The proof |
| 1:32.7 | that Rishi Sunak probably has been the nerdiest person ever to hold high office in Britain. |
| 1:40.9 | Let's find out more about him in this episode of newscast newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:45.9 | I have friends who are ours, I have friends who are other class, I have friends who are |
| 1:49.6 | working class, but I'm not working class. We will give everyone in the country an |
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