Why is trust in UK politics so low?
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at whether the voters trust political leaders. Laura, Paddy and Henry wrap up what the politicians made of the focus groups on Laura's show. Can politicians be trusted with the big issues voters believe the country faces? Who does the public think would make a good Prime Minister? And why some politicians have had enough of politics. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell. It was made by Chris Gray with Josh Jenkins. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The editor is Jonathan Aspinall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | We are all assembled to review the Sunday news and the Sunday news programs. |
| 0:09.2 | And I ended the newscasts on Saturday with criticism but today there's praise for Henry |
| 0:15.8 | Zefman and Laura Koonsburg which is this email I greatly enjoyed the chat between |
| 0:21.4 | Laura and Henry of their favorite historical |
| 0:23.5 | political moments last Sunday. I would welcome a special episode on this, especially with |
| 0:27.8 | Paddy attempting to bring the episode to the end. |
| 0:32.1 | After what, four days? |
| 0:34.0 | And another thing, and another thing, and then and then and then. |
| 0:38.0 | Well, would you be up for that Henry, swapping political trivia and moments from ever? |
| 0:44.3 | Sure, although, you know, putting the number I've witnessed on a level with the, you know, the sort of |
| 0:52.3 | scale of Laura's ringside heat seat a history of the past few years feels |
| 0:56.2 | ridiculous but yeah of course. |
| 0:57.2 | Are you saying I'm old? |
| 0:58.2 | That's implied that you would be bored by us talking about it. |
| 1:01.3 | No no it's just it's great to hear a man call a woman old. It's a really... |
| 1:04.6 | It's such a riveting way. Well I'm not nearly enough she's been around forever. |
| 1:10.3 | Now look, this won't get any eggs boiled. We must get underway with this edition of |
| 1:16.1 | newscast. |
| 1:17.1 | Newscast. |
| 1:19.1 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:20.5 | Why can't people buy a house? Look at their wages. |
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