Adam and Chris are joined by Stephanie Flanders, head of economics and politics at Bloomberg, and Lucy Fisher, Whitehall editor at the Financial Times, to discuss all the political news of the week. They discuss an increasingly heated debate about assisted dying legislation, the chancellor announcing “the biggest pension reform in decades” and President-elect Trump announcing more details of his team. 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. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Anna Harris . The technical producer was Philip Bull. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.
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Here is Friday's episode of Newscast, which is our regular look back at the week that we've just had in the world of politics and the world generally.
And one of those things involved Donald Trump and Joe Biden meeting in front of a huge roaring fire.
So we have recreated, use your imaginations, a huge roaring fire in the newscast studio, but without any actual logs or fire or heat.
Although it does have a powerful psychological effect to keep us all very toasty in this episode of Newscast, Newscast, Newscast from the BBC.
Hello, It's Adam in the newscast studio.
And Chris in the newscast studio.
And we're joined by Stephanie Flanders from Bloomberg.
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And Lucy Fisher from the Financial Times.
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Hi, Adam.
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A really serious subject to start with and I was really struck when I was at Westminster the other day there that you've got this whole massive bunch of new, new MPS, and on the 29th of November, they're going to be asked to vote on possibly the most kind of emotive moral issue of their entire career as mps, because there's going to be this, this second reading debate, as it's called, about assisted dying, which has been proposed by a private members bill by a Labour mp.
And Chris, it felt this week that sort of.
It feels a bit bad calling it campaigns when it's such a moral issue.
But the campaigns have swung into action in terms of how people feel about it.