# Budget Vote Loss: The Interviews Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/walescast-2430083/budget-vote-loss-the-interviews Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/walescast-2430083/budget-vote-loss-the-interviews.md Podcast: [Walescast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/walescast-2430083) Published: 2026-07-15T11:36:00+00:00 Episode link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0nyww43 Audio file: http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss/proto/http/vpid/p0nyw3vc.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/walescast-2430083/episodes/budget-vote-loss-the-interviews Duration seconds: 1357 ## Resource James speaks to First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth after his government fails to win the vote on their extra spending plans. He also catches up with Welsh Labour leader Ken Skates whose party refused to support changes to the budget. These interviews were on Radio Wales Breakfast on the 15th of July. You can catch up with that and Walescast's analysis on BBC Sounds. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/walescast-2430083/episodes/budget-vote-loss-the-interviews/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/walescast-2430083/budget-vote-loss-the-interviews.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.