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Today in Parliament

11/03/2026

Today in Parliament

BBC

Government

4.4162 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

PMQs; and the Mandelson files.

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.

0:06.1

Order, order.

0:08.5

Hello, I'm Alicia McCarthy, and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4 for Wednesday, the 11th of March,

0:14.9

where the Prime Minister accuses the Conservative leader of backpedaling on the war with Iran.

0:20.5

She told the BBC, I haven't said we should have gone in with the United States.

0:27.2

That is the mother of all new turns.

0:30.2

While Kemi Badenok challenges Kirstama over prices at the pumps.

0:33.9

Does the Prime Minister not understand how important cars are to people in rural areas

0:39.1

or does he just not care? And there's outrage as the Mandelson files are released. How can the

0:46.1

minister with a straight face stand at that dispatch box and say we must learn this hard lesson

0:52.1

and end a culture which dismisses women's experiences.

0:57.0

But first, the Prime Minister has accused the Conservative leader of a screeching U-turn

1:02.1

over her approach to the Iran War, saying she'd been spooked into changing her position.

1:08.5

Kemi Badernock, meanwhile, used PMQs to press the Kirstama to say whether or not fuel prices

1:13.8

would rise in September.

1:15.9

The tax rate on petrol and diesel is set to increase when a five pence cut made after Russia's

1:21.9

full-scale invasion of Ukraine is phased out.

1:25.7

Kemi Baderok asked Kirstama why he thought now was the right time to

1:29.6

increase the cost of petrol. The Prime Minister told us at the start of the year that the cost of living

1:35.3

was his number one priority. So can he explain how a rise in fuel duty helps with the cost of living?

1:43.8

Kea Stama insisted the tax would stay unchanged until the autumn.

1:47.6

Fuel duty is frozen. It's going to remain frozen until September.

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