Abuse of Truss
Newscast
10/04/22
•36m
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Cabinet divisions dominate the Tory party conference.
Adam and Chris chew over another challenging day for Prime Minister Liz Truss, who faces mounting pressure over her refusal to commit to increasing benefits in line with inflation.
We discuss a huge protest movement sweeping across Iran with the BBC’s international correspondent Lyse Doucet.
And the James Bond film franchise is 60! Adam speaks to producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson about when we can expect the next film.
Newscast was hosted by Adam Fleming and political editor Chris Mason.
This episode of Newscast was made by Tim Walklate with Miranda Slade, Cordelia Hemming and Madeleine Drury. The technical producer was Mike Regaard and the editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
Thanks to Amazon for clips from ‘The Sound of 007’ documentary, which is available on Prime Video.
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