Campaigning, rishi sunak made it one of his stops on his Whistle Stop Tour of the uk and today, The Labour Leader keir starmer started off his day there. What did you make of what he was saying and what he was doing . Yes, and i think this is a signal, adam, of things to come, isnt it . Because theres been a lot of discussion about whether in this election, in particular the route to number ten might run through scotland, and in particular for sir keir, might run along the river clyde here in glasgow and the river clyde. In fact, that is it, isnt it . If youre watching, if youre not watching, theres a river behind me. Yeah, and what is why is that . Well, because about a decade ago, there was a big shift, a big, Big Shift In Support from labour to the snp. Labour for decades and decades would send dozens of mps from Scotland To Westminster at every election in the 2019 general election. How many mps did they return from scotland . One one. So keir starmer hopes to change that and there
a leaflet through the door, a knock on the door from a candidate, but mainly through tv, radio, newspapers, online. people, i think, sometimes forget what media is or what media means. it is obviously the mediate between the public and the politicians and their leaders. and it is, of course, flawed, but without the media, the public wouldn t know what s going on. so yeah, absolutely right. let s do this episode by different types of media. and i m going to now take a step back because i m one of the few non former newspaper editors sat in this room. i really know what kind of media. 0h, simon hasn t edited a newspaper either. and alex, did you edit the student newspaper, maybe, iwould imagine? no, i didn t actually. no, i also am a non newspaper editor. what media are you going to attribute to me? because i want something cool and funky like instagram. i don t want. well, you can do it all. i can do it all. thank you. thank you very much. academic based quiz shows? academic b
Stories coming live from the bbc newsroom. There are a number to focus on across the hour. Of course well talk about the royal engagement. These are some of the latest pictures from indonesia where thousands of people are being told to leave their homes because of this enormous volcano to leave their homes because of this enormous volcano and barley. Weve also got this special report to play, its about Lake Victoria and pollution damaging the lives of fishermen. Hope frances is in myanmar and thats going to be a delicate diplomatic trip because of theissue delicate diplomatic trip because of the issue of the Rohingya Muslims. We will talk about that in detail as well. Theres no doubt what the most popular story has been at bbc all day. The american actress and campaign Meghan Markle is engaged to prince harry. Here they are making their first appearance since the announcement. Harry has taken the royalfamily announcement. Harry has taken the royal family somewhere new. Announcement. Ha