Far-right activist Tommy Robinson has been jailed for 18 months after admitting contempt of court by repeating false claims against a Syrian refugee. Home and legal correspondent Dominic Casciani was in court and then headed back to the Newscast studio to explain the background. And, we learned more about what to expect in the budget during a speech from Keir Starmer today. Chris looks at the politics while PM/The Bottom Line/Dragon’s Den’s Evan Davis makes sense of the economics. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers. Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Flynn. The technical producer was Jack Graysmark and Philip Bull. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.
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After I was reunited with Laura in the weekend newscast, I'm going to be reunited with Chris Mason in today's because he is back from the Commonwealth Heads of Government summit which involved a very long series of flights to and from Samoa.
And there is plenty of news to talk about in this episode of Newscast, including in the first half the latest on Tommy Robinson, AKA Stephen Yaxley Lennon, who's been sentenced to a prison sentence for contempt of court.
We will explain along with some analysis in advance of the budget.
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Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio and I'll be catching up with Chris Mason shortly.
And we're going to have an annual pre budget appearance from Evan Davis when he has finished broadcasting PM on Radio 4.
But first of all, we're going to talk about Stephen Yaxley Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson.