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Today in Parliament

08/04/2025

Today in Parliament

BBC

Government

4.4162 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Sean Curran reports as the Prime Minister faces a 90-minute question and answer session with MPs on the last parliamentary day before the Easter break.

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0:00.0

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0:04.7

Order! Order.

0:07.2

Hello, I'm Sean Curran, and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4.

0:12.2

For Tuesday, the 8th of April, when the Prime Minister said he was disappointed at President Trump's decision to impose tariffs.

0:19.6

My instinct is that we shouldn't jump in with both feet to retaliate.

0:24.6

The shadow chancellor Mel Stride offers his party's support in getting the tariffs down.

0:30.6

Free trade has been the bedrock of prosperity for our country and many countries around the world for decades.

0:36.6

Also on the programme, anger over the focus by Conservative MPs on Asian grooming gangs.

0:43.3

They vilify day after day Muslims in this chamber.

0:46.3

As somebody who's got Muslim family, who has brown skin, can I just say that we feel

0:52.3

increasingly uncomfortable in our own country?

0:55.7

And how servicemen and women aren't getting the support they've been promised.

1:00.6

The Armed Forces Covenant is a noble proposition, but sadly one that we do not always live up to as a society.

1:08.5

Two or three times a year, the Prime Minister spends 90 minutes answering questions from a group

1:13.8

of senior MPs. These sessions of the Liaison Committee are very different from the cut and thrust

1:19.9

of PMQs and deal with issues in more detail and at greater length. When Secere Starmer appeared

1:26.2

in front of the MPs,

1:31.6

all chairs of Commons committees for the first time last December,

1:34.1

he was asked about growth and the economy.

1:37.5

The Labour Chair of the Liaison Committee, Dame Meg Hillier,

1:40.9

returned to those issues at the start of today's hearing. In the light of what happened last week with the introduction of tariffs

1:46.2

by the United States and predictions of a global recession, are you looking at revisiting your

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