BBC transcripts
08:48 Monday 9th May 2016
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
DOTTY MCLEOD: David Cameron is warning that peace in Europe could be put at risk if Britain votes to leave the EU in next month’s referendum. He’s going to be making a speech this morning. He’ll be warning that whenever the UK turns its back on its allies it always regrets it. Paul Rowley Political Correspondent is with me. How important is this speech Paul?
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The focus is going to be on the threat to industry, to jobs, in the event of Britain leaving the European Union.
08:23 Tuesday 23rd February 2016
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
DOTTY MCLEOD: David Cameron is taking to the road today answering questions from voters, as he begins campaigning for Britain to stay in the European Union in the forthcoming referendum. He’s facing criticism though from Conservative Eurosceptics, who have accused him of launching a personal attack in the Commons on the Mayor of London Boris Johnson. Boris Johnson has decided to support those wanting to leave the EU. The spat is splashed across most of this morning’s newspapers. I’m joined now by our Political Correspondent Paul Rowley. An argument in the House of Commons between two Old Etonians Paul, it strikes me that this is slightly peculiar front page news.
PAUL ROWLEY: It’s bizarre to be honest with you. I’m very worried in a way that it’s been portrayed as a kind of psycho-drama Dotty, a bit like the tensions we saw when Tony Blair was Prime Minister and Gordon Brown wanted to be Prime Minister. Although I think this may well be overplayed by some of my colleagues in the national press, just because it’s easier frankly to tell this story as a kind of soap opera through the eyes of two of the leading characters, rather than talk about the ‘ishues’, as Tony Benn used to call it. But I tell you, this is what’s happening on Day One of the campaign. Heaven only knows what it’s going to be like by the time we all get to vote in four months time.
DOTTY MCLEOD: David Cameron then taking to the road today. Is that right?
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