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Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Wednesday the 14th of January.

Coming up, the opposition leader mocked the Prime Minister for a series of U-turns, the latest on compulsory digital ID.

The family farms tax.

U-Turt.

Digital ID.

U-turn.

Jury trials?

We hope so.

We hope so.

The Prime Minister focuses on Tory defections to reform, saying he doesn't know which is more pitiful.

The flood of former Tory MPs deserting her sinking ship or the reform party so desperate

to launder any old failed Tory politician.

Also, after the controversial handling of a football match between Aston Villa and Maccabi

Tel Aviv, the Home Secretary cuts the police chief loose.

I must declare today that the chief constable of West Midlands Police no longer has my confidence.

But first, at Prime Minister's questions, the opposition leader Kemi Badernock made full use of the news a few hours earlier,

that the government had decided to drop its plans

to make digital ID cards mandatory for anyone trying to get a job. Last autumn, the Prime Minister

himself announced the policy which would require workers to sign up to the system in order to

prove their right to work in the UK. But the policy has been controversial, not least

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