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Oct 2022
28m 44s

The Sunak Pack

BBC News
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Who’s in and who’s out of the new PM’s cabinet?

Rishi Sunak has been assembling his new top team - and some familiar faces have been brought back into the fold.

The BBC’s Chris Mason and Vicki Young join Adam to talk about the top appointments and look at who’s been snubbed.

And newsreader George Alagiah discusses the significance of the UK’s first British-Asian prime minister.

This episode of Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming and made by Tim Walklate with Chris Flynn and Miranda Slade. Emma Crowe is the technical producer and the assistant editor is Sam Bonham.

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