Will The Rishi Rebrand Work?
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Can the PM win over voters as the ‘change candidate’?
Laura and Paddy discuss.
And Newscasters have been getting in touch about 'State of Chaos’ - Laura’s show about the political turmoil in the May/Johnson/Truss years. She answers some of them, and talks about what putting the programme together was like.
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Today’s Newscast was presented by Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O'Connell. It was made by Chris Flynn with Arsenii Sokolov. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.
00:00 Will the Rishi Rebrand work? 13:59 State of Chaos: Your questions answered
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds. Music, radio, podcasts. Paddy, paddy, paddy, this is exciting. |
| 0:07.0 | Well, I mean, it sounds to me like you're sticking your head out of an act of window. |
| 0:12.0 | Well, the exciting thing is that this is your first vintage newscast when one of us is on the move. |
| 0:18.0 | So I'm in a car on the M6 on my way to Manchester for the Tory party conference. |
| 0:22.0 | Well, you certainly couldn't be in a train. |
| 0:24.0 | Well, no, because they're on strike. |
| 0:26.0 | And it feels very appropriate to be in a car because on the eve of the conference, |
| 0:30.0 | the Conservative Party leader, the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, is promising us he's going to end the war on motorists. |
| 0:36.0 | Now, I can't see any soldiers rampaging around the side of the M6, |
| 0:40.0 | but he's trying to make a big political play of this. |
| 0:43.0 | Yes, and we're going to talk a word again at the conference about HS2, |
| 0:46.0 | which might be scrapped to Manchester from Birmingham and where are the Tories meeting? |
| 0:51.0 | Orcs this Manchester. |
| 0:54.0 | So there's a lot for us to talk about. |
| 0:56.0 | Also, loads of lovely emails about your documentary state of chaos |
| 1:00.0 | and we want to get behind the scenes and get some gossip from the cutting room floor in this podcast too. |
| 1:05.0 | Newscast. |
| 1:06.0 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:08.0 | Why can't people buy a house? Look at their wages. |
| 1:11.0 | There are many questions on things that are not related to maths. |
| 1:13.0 | People who say that we were partying simply do not know what they are talking about. |
| 1:17.0 | The era of global warming has ended, the era of global boiling as arrived. |
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