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And that is why we're doing a slightly later episode of Newscast on Tuesday
because MPs were voting for the first time on the government's welfare proposals.
The proposals went through, but with a massive rebellion by Labour-backed benchers,
the biggest of Keir Starmer's first year in office,
and also as a result of him junking a huge chunk of what the reforms were.
It's been really quite a day in parliament and we will catch up with Chris Mason to find out what it's been like there on the ground and actually what this means.
for Keir Starmer's next few years as Prime Minister on this episode of Newscast.
Hello,
it's Adam in the newscast studio and I can hear Chris dashing into the newscast studio at Westminster.
Oh Hi,
it's Chris you're on we're recording right now brilliant good So I just watched you doing the 10 o'clock news and you were in full on this is a historic day in Parliament mode now I think I know the answer to why why you were doing that but just explain to newscasters why sort of you went to that level today
because I found myself with that sort of being transported back to Brexit.
Well, yeah.
I mean, firstly, all that stuff where, you know,
you and I first started podcasting together with Laura and Katya and all of that and those sort of Brexit nights of just extraordinary kind of jeopardy and everything just playing out in public.
And then a little more recently.
three years ago, shortly after I started this job,