Summary
Boris Johnson asks, Newscast answers... by profiling the ITV "legend" Lorraine Kelly.
Also, a leak from the US Supreme Court suggests the national right to abortion could be overturned. North America Editor, Sarah Smith, joins Adam from the protests in Washington to discuss what the end of Roe v Wade could mean.
And… we preview elections taking place across England and Northern Ireland on Thursday with Alex Forsyth, the BBC’s Chris Page and Kelly Beaver, Chief Executive of Ipsos (Wales and Scotland elections preview coming tomorrow).
Today’s Newscast was made by Tim Walklate, with Cordelia Hemming 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. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, hope you had a nice bank holiday weekend. |
| 0:07.0 | My return to work this morning was quite funny because I was in the office at Westminster |
| 0:11.4 | and I was watching Boris Johnson being interviewed on Good Morning Britain by Susanna Reid. |
| 0:16.1 | The first time he'd been on that program in five years, they kept on telling us. |
| 0:20.4 | Anyway, it got to the end of the interview. |
| 0:22.0 | They were running out of time. |
| 0:23.4 | He was doing that thing where he spews out things about his track record, |
| 0:26.5 | and Susanna was trying to wrap it all up. |
| 0:28.5 | And then he said this. |
| 0:30.2 | And bearing in mind, GMB was about to come to an end, |
| 0:33.7 | so it was nearly 9 o'clock, |
| 0:34.9 | and Lorraine Kelly was about to take over with her eponymous show, Lorraine. I was mayor of London, that we've got crime down by 20%. |
| 0:42.0 | We've now got neighbourhood crime down since I was elected by 33%. |
| 0:46.5 | All the issues that you have brought up in this interview. |
| 0:49.4 | Who's Lorraine? |
| 0:50.0 | Who's Lorraine? |
| 0:51.8 | Lorraine's a legend. |
| 0:52.7 | Okay, fantastic. I'm looking forward to talk to Lorraine. Okay. Wow. Thank you, Susanna. A masterclass |
| 0:57.7 | in a political interview. Excellent stuff. And you know what? That is classic Lorraine Kelly. |
| 1:02.4 | Not that I know her, but she was on Women's Hour a few years ago. And yeah, she was just pure |
| 1:08.1 | modesty when she was on there. I set the tone of that show. |
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