12/11/2025
Today in Parliament
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🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Susan Hulme reports from Westminster as the Conservatives accuse Sir Keir Starmer of losing control of the government at this week's Prime Minister's Questions.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Order. Order. |
| 0:08.0 | Hello, I'm Susan Human. This is the Today in Parliament podcast for Wednesday, the 12th of November. |
| 0:14.0 | Coming up, the Prime Minister insists he was not behind the move to accuse Cabinet ministers of plotting a coup. |
| 0:20.0 | I've never authorised attacks on Cabinet members. I appointed them to their post because |
| 0:24.5 | they're the best people to carry out their jobs. But Kemi Bader Nock thinks that's even worse. |
| 0:30.1 | He says these attacks aren't authorised. That means he's lost control of number 10 because that's |
| 0:34.3 | where they're coming from. Also, conservatives accused the Prime Minister and Sports Secretary of cronyism |
| 0:40.2 | over the appointment of a Labour donor as football regulator. |
| 0:44.1 | Who is the blame for this sorry mess? |
| 0:46.1 | How much did Mr Cogan give to the Prime Minister and did he declare it? |
| 0:49.2 | And does she agree that Mr Cogan's deeply flawed appointment must be rescinded given the risk of the football? |
| 0:53.8 | And passionate support for the cheapness of green energy. |
| 0:57.6 | The energy is free. |
| 0:59.2 | No commodity protection. |
| 1:02.1 | Because the wind. |
| 1:03.9 | The sunlight. |
| 1:05.7 | But first, Kemi Badernock has accused the Prime Minister of losing control of his government. |
| 1:11.3 | She was reacting to moves by Sir Kier-Starmer's own allies to highlight talk of a plot to oust him from the top job. |
| 1:18.6 | Journalists were contacted on the eve of Prime Minister's questions in the Commons |
| 1:22.2 | to tell them about Number 10's fears of a leadership bid after the budget. |
| 1:27.0 | Suspicion was directed particularly at the Health Secretary Wes Streeting. |
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