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Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20240604 09:07:00

There you can see with a prominent picture of the prime minister and the question, do you think adults convicted of sexually assaulting children should go to prison? rishi sunak doesn t. now conservatives have criticised it. others in labour have criticised it as well. the shadow former shadow chancellorjohn mcdonnell, calling for it to be taken down. of course he s not someone who s associated with the labour leadership at the moment under sir keir starmer. but interestingly yesterday the shadow culture secretary, lucy powell, distanced herself somewhat when being interviewed on bbc breakfast from the ad itself, but said she stood by the message that it was aiming to get across. so a lot of political discussion about this and perhaps unsurprisingly, because local elections looming next month across england and crime, law and order is one subject which both main parties will be keen to press hone their message on. can we talk about the figures then that labour have used in this? i see ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20240604 10:06:00

Everyone responsible for child abuse should get a custodial sentence, why are so many not getting that? here s the prime minister, she said. and that s a legitimate question for the opposition to ask. she said that while some people had decided that the ad was racist, she believed that they were wrong. so bbc news online, you can take a look at the post itself, which has attracted so much attention. there you can see with a prominent picture of the prime minister and the question, do you think adults convicted of sexually assaulting children should go to prison? rishi sunak doesn t. now conservatives have criticised it. others in labour have criticised it as well. the shadow former shadow chancellorjohn mcdonnell, calling for it to be taken down. of course he s not someone who s associated with the labour leadership at the moment under sir keir starmer. but interestingly yesterday the shadow culture secretary, lucy powell, distanced herself somewhat when being interviewed ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20240604 12:13:00

On the labour side, you mention the conservative criticism there. the former shadow chancellorjohn mcdonnell said that his party is better than this and this morning, and breakfast, the shadow culture secretary lucy powell was repeatedly asked whether she stood by the central claim in that tweet. i can see that it is not to everybody s taste, absolutely, and that some everybody s taste, absolutely, and that some people won t like it. i that some people won t like it. i didh t that some people won t like it. i didn t design the graphic. it s not ididn t design the graphic. it s not my i didn t design the graphic. it s not my graphic, but i am here to explain not my graphic, but i am here to explain what lies beneath it, which is a very explain what lies beneath it, which is a very serious point about what is a very serious point about what is happening in our criminaljustice system. is happening in our criminaljustice system, which i think most of your viewers system, which i ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20240604 11:12:00

Chancellorjohn mcdonnell. quite an influentialfigure in chancellorjohn mcdonnell. quite an influential figure in the chancellorjohn mcdonnell. quite an influentialfigure in the labour party. he says this is not the sort of politics labour party confident of politics labour party confident of its employees are preparing to govern should be engaged in. i say to the people who have taken unpleasant to publish that please withdraw it. there is signed the labour party are planning withdraw that particular advert. it is still up that particular advert. it is still up on twitter. this morning on bbc we spoke to the shadow culture secretary as a senior figure lucy powell and she was repeatedly asked whether she should have stood by the central claim in that tweet. well, the record of his government says that people are getting off lightly for these sorts of offences and he is the prime minister of that government. and, you know, people produce digital campaigns and digital material and campaig ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS Breakfast 20240604 05:07:00

Cut. some on the left of a party like the former chancellorjohn mcdonnell are opposed to doing that at the moment, shadow chancellor i should say, broadly, we will see a lot of attacks from here on in what the government is doing and the truth is labour is trying to say to the public the government has one plan for growth and we have another plan for growth and we have another plan and we think it s going to be a bit fairer, it s going to be more focused on the energy sector and a greener economy. but everything that s happening just now here is in the context of those big tax cuts that were announced on friday, and that were announced on friday, and that story you guys were talking about a few seconds ago, those big falls in the pound overnight, so this is a pretty uncertain economic times. what we are seeing is the two main parties, the government, the conservatives, and labour, setting out very different visions about what they would do with the future. ....

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