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Today in Parliament

02/05/2025

Today in Parliament

BBC

Government

4.4160 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Susan Hulme speaks to MPs and peers about money, science and a little bit of history.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts.

0:04.8

Order. Order.

0:07.3

Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Friday the 2nd of May.

0:13.5

Coming up, we step away from the turbulence of the election results to join MPs investigating the world of online financial influencers

0:22.2

and how to tell the swindlers from the educators.

0:25.8

If people are providing the right advice, that's a good thing.

0:27.9

It's those that are breaking the law and providing harmful advice that we are focused on.

0:32.4

Also, concern from the Greens that gene editing in crops is set to go ahead in England.

0:38.3

These are really complex systems that we're at kind of that second grader of primary school level of understanding.

0:45.2

And we're off to the theatre and a new play looking back at the power struggles

0:49.5

at the heart of labour after Harold Wilson's surprise resignation.

0:54.7

Oh my word sounds like a military coup. I hope this place is secure. Are you sure MI5 aren't

1:00.0

bugging your phone line, Anthony? Is that likely? If you want to know if MI5 is bugging you,

1:05.6

just stop paying the bill. Why? Because they'll never cut you off.

1:10.2

But first, there was an unusual start to the

1:13.4

Treasury Committee session this week. Thousands of people are already making a part-time or even

1:19.1

full-time income by spending less than 15 minutes a day copying my trades. I'm not about selling

1:25.7

horses. I'm about helping you make real profits from real

1:29.2

trades. With over 15,000 members... Well, the chair, Labour's Dame Meg Hillier, stepped in quickly

1:36.0

before any innocent onlookers rushed off to sign up for that.

1:40.0

For anyone who just tuned into the Treasury Select Committee, this is not something the Treasury

1:43.8

Select Committee is endorsing and we did try and anonymise that information.

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