The News Meeting: India’s election and why pupils in England are facing their worst exam results in decades

David Aaronovitch and the Tortoise team debate what should lead the news in front of an audience in the newsroom.

They discuss the scale of India’s election, failures to tackle the academic and social legacies of school closures during Covid, and what was happening in Iran on the day it attacked Israel.

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Guests:

• David Aaronovitch, journalist, broadcaster and host of ‘Eight Year’s Hard Labour’
• Jess Winch, news editor at Tortoise
• Stephen Armstrong, reporter at Tortoise

Host: Giles Whittell, deputy editor at Tortoise

Producer: Casey Magloire

Executive producer: Lewis Vickers

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