time now to digest the day s election campaigning and there s a lot to digest today here s newscast, with adam fleming and the team. chris, let me get this straight. i can t see anyone, but you can see both me and alex forsyth. that s right although that s only because i was sent a little picture of the two of you, just to remind me what you looked like. with you in your studio and alex in hers, and me in mine. hang on, we last saw each other on thursday you ve forgotten already? no, not forgotten, ijust like to be, you know, reassured. you know what, though, alex? what was that game you play where you have to lie in the dark, and then. i don t know what game you re talking to, adam. i m nervous about where you re going with it. what do you think i do when i m lying in the dark with other people? less about your weekend. no, that game when you have to, like, shout something out, but not shout over each other, but you can t see anyone else? no. what s that game? basi
anyway, so just before we dive into this episode of newscast, just a little moment to explain what we actually do. so, we and some of our other kind of bestjournalistic pals in the bbc get together every night, chew over what s happened in the election that day, and then publish it as a podcast, which is newscast. and you can get that every night wherever you get your podcasts. and it sjust, for me, as a journalist, it s really kind of fun, but also kind of in depth way ofjust processing what s happened in this big, crazy news event, which is the general election of 202a. that s right. and i think what we also try to do is open up our notebooks and give people more of the kind of conversations that you have with politicians, advisers, staffers, privately and some of the things, frankly, that you can t necessarily fit into a news bulletin when you ve got 60 seconds or two and a half minutes to explain a story. and we also want to hear from you and you in the next half hour c
and what was the best way of doing that. and just the fact that the discussion about sex and gender had moved on quite a lot from when the equality act was passed in 2010, when the decade before, gender recognition certificates were introduced. and so, it s notjust come out of nowhere. and also, the equalities and human rights commission had been looking into this earlier in the year, and had recommended that something be done around this although people will then say to the conservatives, well, if it was so important to you, why didn t you do it when you were in power, rather than promising to do it if you re returned to power? now, chris, talking about things that people started off the day doing, you started off the day talking about the military and defence spending, and particularly labour s triple lock. everyone s got a triple lock of their own now. yes, here comes another little bit of political language. so, yeah, labourwere at the fusilier museum, in bury, in greater manch