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🗓️ 11 July 2025
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
0:04.6 | Order! Order. |
0:07.0 | Hello, I'm Sean Curran, and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4. |
0:11.6 | For Friday, the 11th of July, when MPs backed a crackdown on people who get into football matches without valid tickets. |
0:19.5 | It's necessary that legislation to protect fans, passers, as soon as possible, |
0:23.6 | so that it can come into effect and be a proper deterrent. |
0:27.6 | There's a call for more action to tackle rare cancers, as MPs hear the stories of those left behind. |
0:34.6 | Having the conversation to say, Mummy is never coming back, will haunt me forever. |
0:39.1 | But a string of proposals are blocked on the 13th and final Friday devoted to private members' bills. |
0:46.0 | And should voting be made compulsory? If everyone votes, then those politicians you don't like |
0:52.1 | are unlikely to win re-election. Essentially, this is a way to change the whole dynamic of politics. |
0:57.4 | Four years ago, England's footballers appeared in their first men's final for 55 years |
1:02.5 | when they faced Italy at Wembley in Euro 2020. |
1:06.4 | It should have been a moment to celebrate, |
1:08.1 | but the official review into the disorder at the |
1:11.1 | stadium called it a day of national shame. About 2,000 people got into the ground illegally, |
1:17.5 | and that review by the Whitehall Troubyshuelly called them a horde of ticketless, drunken and |
1:24.9 | drugged-up thugs. Now a Labour MP and former Crown Prosecutor wants to |
1:30.0 | change the law to make unauthorised entry into football matches a new criminal offence in |
1:35.7 | England and Wales. Lindsay Farnsworth, who was elected for the first time at last year's election, |
1:41.7 | told me why she'd sponsored a private members bill. |
1:45.2 | I come from a family who are avid football fans, myself included, and I have a son who's 15, |
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