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Nov 2022
34m 49s

The Strike Before Christmas

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Rail passengers face disruption in the festive period. Adam talks it through with Chris, who is travelling on a train from Birmingham, where he was quizzing the Labour leader on his immigration policy. Madeleine Sumption, from the Migration Advisory Committee, climbs aboard too and assesses how Labour's approach could work.

And the Newscast World Cup sweepstake intensifies after the tournament sees some surprising results. We chat to Steve Crossman, from the World Cup Daily Podcast.

This episode of Newscast is presented by Adam Fleming and made by Sam Bonham with Amy Elizabeth, Chris Flynn and Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Emma Crowe and the editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.

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