00:00 Hello, I think most of you know who I am by now, but I'm James Mitchinson, the editor
00:05 of the Yorkshire Post, and I wanted to just give you a quick glimpse into the weekend
00:10 ahead's edition, because it carries a fascinating interview with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
00:18 Our Westminster correspondent Mason Boycott-Owen sat down with the Prime Minister in South
00:23 Yorkshire this week, and to our surprise, my surprise, he managed to put the Prime Minister
00:28 so at ease that he opened up about a whole host of different issues, matters relating
00:34 to the safety of himself and his family, after, if you recall, those protesters breached security
00:40 at his home and managed to get on the roof there. Lord knows what that must have felt
00:44 like. He goes on to talk about his wider concerns about, and for, if you like, the safety of
00:54 other MPs in their own homes too, and when they're out and about. He reflects with us
01:00 on family life, on the support of his wife, and what that means to him. He talks about
01:07 his parents, he talks about the upbringing they gave him and why they instilled in him
01:12 the sort of values and qualities that mean he still has ambitions, he still has things
01:18 he wants to do. He talks about the reasons why he doesn't give it all up and go off and
01:25 live on a luxury island. And perhaps more fascinating than all of that is when he talks
01:34 about receiving the biggest hospital pass for any incoming Prime Minister in decades.
01:41 You don't want to miss it. It's going to be a huge double page spread across the middle
01:45 of the broadsheet book. We're working on it now, but I just thought I'd give you a preview
01:50 to that. And also, turn the newspaper over, go to the back pages, and our cricket correspondent
01:58 Chris Waters, he has written a raw, emotive, challenging read actually, from his interview
02:07 with Wayne Morton, the former physiotherapist at Yorkshire County Cricket Club. He goes
02:11 into great personal detail about the impact the racism scandal at the home of cricket
02:16 has had on him and his family. And there is a part in the interview where Wayne Morton
02:24 talks about the way he broke down. He didn't realise he'd got to that point, but he went
02:30 to his GP for help and found himself breaking down in front of his GP, realising that he
02:35 was at the very brink of despair. So that's the difficult read, but it's a fascinating
02:41 insight into the trauma and the impact of the racism scandal on a particular individual.
02:47 So I hope you can pick up a copy of the Yorkshire Post. Tomorrow, the interview isn't a soft
02:53 touch for anybody who, with Rishi Sunak that is, it's not a soft touch for anybody who's
02:58 tempted to accuse us of being so on the Tories. I think the Yorkshire Post has been amongst
03:02 the fiercest critics of this Tory government in recent years. Not least when I banned Boris
03:08 Johnson from coming to the Yorkshire Post at all, such was his misdemeanours and behaviour.
03:13 But yeah, I'll leave it there. We're going to get on with it. So I hope you enjoy. Take
03:19 care.
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