When he s overseas, we as americans collectively hold our breath, hoping when he gives his speech on democracy, he does not embarrass us by speaking like he does back home. fall, that fall, he decided to look, i shouldn t get into this, probably. america is strongest when we lead by example of power and by the power of our example. you can clap for that. laura: we can t want, any of us, visual of macron having to guide biden off the stage, which so many here have had to do.
[cheering] laura: i m going to cry on that know wo. raymond: it was so beautiful, so beautiful seeing people come out from villages that were liberated to thank the 82nd airborne and last remaining vets, they estimate 200 of them can make it to this year s celebration. in all likelihood, this will be the last big commemoration for these did sheing-day vets. god bless them all. laura: they answered the call and many knew they would not come home and they went anyway. there was not a debate whether america and europe were worth saving. thank you for that. thank you for almost making me cry. carley: today marks the 80th
So turn your radio dials to radio four at 1029. i m very glad that you corrected that because hopefully it means that i won t be late. but you said it s a premier. are you going to dress up because i haven t got a cocktail dress? i don t think. i m not feeling like red carpet ready. that doesn t happen in an election campaign. 0h, laura, i can tell you re a tv person, because the thing is, with radio, it doesn t matter what you re wearing. you can say you re wearing a ball gown and people like, all right. but you know, what is an innovation, chris mason, because he s not dashing around the country for once, he s got aftershave on and it hasn t worn off because of a day of sweating. well, also, more to the point i have got, because it s because of the d day commemorations, i ve had a quieter day, which means and this is dangerous. i have come in to do newscasts and something other than a suit and tie. and therefore, the sort of, you know, the wardrobe that hasn t been sort of signed off and okay for tv actually features certainly on the tv version of newscast, which is yeah, dangerous territory. i could just come
Round to your house. let s get on the tape. somebody is obviously going to resign in a while. all right, let s get on with this episode of newscast. newscast. newscast from the bbc. hello, it s adam in the studio. and it s chris in the studio. and it s laura not in the studio. so we re going to be honest, there s not been a massive big political story in the election campaign today. so we thought we d just run through some of the many stories that have been floating around kind of under the surface of the news today. and the reason, i mean, it s quite understandable why the politicians haven t been out in the battle buses is because lots of them were in northern france for the commemoration of d day. and then actually, when you look at the pictures, obviously the main thing is it s like it s very moving and you re just reminded of the sacrifice and all that, the weight of history in the pictures. and it s been very well choreographed by the french.
But also one of the things you notice that one of the key moments when all the big world leaders were there, rishi sunak, chris, wasn t there. david cameron the foreign secretary was the sort of the pretend pm today. yeah. so rishi sunak has been involved in the various commemorations for much of the last couple of days, but wasn t there at that exact point when there were plenty of leaders sort of doing their thing and wandering about and saying saying a few things and meeting some of the veterans. and so, yeah, lord cameron, the foreign secretary, mingling with the french president and the german chancellor and the us president and all the rest of it. and yeah, rishi sunak at that point no longer there. i suppose, laura, with prime minister s duty calls all the time, and sometimes the duty isn t the kind of the world leader stuff. well, that s right. i mean, we should say he did make a speech today, so it s not like he sat there for 5 minutes and then disappeared. but you re right, at some of the crucial sort of maximum moments of potent choreography, it was david cameron who was actually there in his place. it s one of the things actually that paddy is completely obsessed with this.
Newscast good to see you. now it is time for newscast. laura good to see you. now it is time for newscast. laura and good to see you. now it is time for newscast. laura and chris, - good to see you. now it is time for newscast. laura and chris, a - newscast. laura and chris, a misleading number has been put out into the public domain and it needs to be corrected. i m going to write to the office for national statistics immediately. yes. and then maybe they ll write a quite wussy letter back because they didn t want to rock the boat too much. anyway, that s a discussion for another day. anyway, we re going to do episodes of newscast live on radio four on saturday mornings for the duration of the election campaign. and i made this big announcement about it yesterday on newscast, on our podcast episode on bbc sounds. but i got the time wrong. oh, for goodness sake. and i got the time wrong in the worst possible way, because it was in a way i d miss it and be late because it s actually at 1030 this saturday. normally for like the rest of the campaign, it s going to be 11am on radio for ourfirst inaugural premier episode is at 1030.
The other day, which has been a conservative seat for about a trillion years. and that was another amazing moment, wasn t it, with the photo bomb of the lib dems down? yes. yes, it certainly was. yeah. no, quite. and you know, the fact that the lib dems were there and the prime minister was there, these places are picked carefully. the time of the senior figures is precious and yeah, it tells you something about where they conclude the battlegrounds are. so i love it. laura wants people to send in intellectually, editorially interesting sightings of politicians. i want people to send in funny videos from the door bell cameras, because actually, much of this campaign is quite retro and old fashioned, i ve been complaining about it. but one of the innovations that we didn t really have five years ago was door bell cameras. i reckon one up from a door bell camera would be some dashcam footage, you know, of a politician crossing the zebra crossing or crossing the pelican in front of you. 0r being caught speeding like ed davey was this weekend. tut tut tut. yes. although a part of that was he said
We love that. isn t that terrific, laura? workington man was your era as political editor. so what s your take on that? that phenomenon? workington man came from a think tank called onward sidebar. people from onward are now in powerful places, and one of them is has been the prime minister s deputy chief of staff, i think, who s now standing as a candidate. but anyway, i digress. so onward, a london based research group think tank came up with the phrase workington man, the sort of poster boy for, i suppose, the kind of northern end of middle england who, you know, is terrible cliches used to like the labour party, voted for brexit is probably into rugby league, i mean total cliche territory, but as a voting group was seen as completely critical, people who had been labour for most of their life, they lived in a kind of labour part of the world and they might be tempted to vote for boris johnson s
Basildon man was meant to win it for the tories in 92 and then in 97 labour got worcester women. but now i m sounding very old. but my question, the one wasn t it at one point ijust think they always sound like those skeletons, glaciers going, oh, we found such and such man who reveals that humans lived on berries. that s right. and this sort of both useful and unusable, these kinds of cliches. but they but they are cliches. but, mark, it s fantastic to hear from a real, an actual workington man rather than a cliched workington man. but mark, you didn t tell us what your politics are. i d like to know that. were you misrepresented by that terrible cliche or not? yeah. mark, get back in touch. email us newscast at bbc.co. uk. although he already knows our email address because you already emailed us. i mean, it s for other people who don t know it now. laura, i thought we could end where we where we started, go full circle and talk about d day. and i know that you have been delving into your own family archive. well, it s funny, i don t like to talk about my family. i think it s bad enough for people i m related to that. i m on tv at all. however, d day really made me think
Moments when all the big world leaders were there, rishi sunak, chris, wasn t there. david cameron the foreign secretary was the sort of the pretend pm today. yeah. so rishi sunak has been involved in the various commemorations for much of the last couple of days, but wasn t there at that exact point when there were plenty of leaders sort of doing their thing and wandering about and saying saying a few things and meeting some of the veterans. and so, yeah, lord cameron, the foreign secretary, mingling with the french president and the german chancellor and the us president and all the rest of it. and yeah, rishi sunak at that point no longer there. i suppose, laura, with prime minister s duty calls all the time, and sometimes the duty isn t the kind of the world leader stuff. well, that s right. i mean, we should say he did make a speech today, so it s not like he sat there for 5 minutes and then disappeared. but you re right, at some of the crucial sort of maximum moments of potent choreography, it was david cameron who was actually there in his place. it s one of the things actually that paddy is completely