episode of newscast now it s time for today s sunday episode of newscast with laura kuenssberg and paddy o connell. newscast from the bbc. hello, it s laura in the studio. it s paddy in the studio. and i m so relieved that you didn t ask me about whatever they ve changed to do with football, something or other, because i would have had to try to have a stab at it, and it would have been embarrassing for all concerned. there s a lot of politicians bigging up their love of football. 0h, crikey! which i actually. do you know what, i m always trying to say i m not cynical. it s fine if it s authentic. exactly. like keir starmer is a massive football fan. he likes going to football grounds. that also makes sense for them politically because of the image it projects, but he is a genuine football fan. some of them aren t always, and we did have a bit of a laugh about it on our show this morning. but the main thing we talked about this morning on the programme, not exclusively, but w
now on bbc news, newscast with laura kuenssberg and paddy o connell. newscast from the bbc. hello, it s laura in the studio. it s paddy in the studio. and i m so relieved that you didn t ask me about whatever they ve changed to do with football, something or other, because i would have had to try to have a stab at it, and it would have been embarrassing for all concerned. there s a lot of politicians bigging up their love of football. 0h, crikey! which i actually. do you know what, i m always trying to say i m not cynical. it s fine if it s authentic. exactly. like keir starmer is a massive football fan. he likes going to football grounds. that also makes sense for them politically because of the image it projects, but he is a genuine football fan. some of them aren t always, and we did have a bit of a laugh about it on our show this morning. but the main thing we talked about this morning on the programme, not exclusively, but we talked a lot about health and social care bec
exactly. like keir starmer is a massive football fan. he likes going to football grounds. that also makes sense for them politically because of the image it projects, but he is a genuine football fan. some of them aren t always, and we did have a bit of a laugh about it on our show this morning. but the main thing we talked about this morning on the programme, not exclusively, but we talked a lot about health and social care because there s been lots of chat this week about it, partly because big plans for social care have not featured in the labour and tory manifestos, even though we know it s a huge issue for listeners and viewers and people around the country. but the lib dems, interestingly, have got.they ve majored on social care in health in their manifesto. and hilary gordon, newscaster thank you for your message says, thank goodness we have some politicians who are proposing that all parties get together to look for a long term solution to the nhs and social care
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