14/10/2025
Today in Parliament
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🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Alicia McCarthy reports from Westminster as MPs from across the Commons welcome the ceasefire deal in Gaza.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | Order. Order. |
| 0:08.5 | Hello, I'm Alicia McCarthy, and this is the Today in Parliament podcast from BBC Radio 4 for Tuesday the 14th of October, |
| 0:16.8 | where the Prime Minister says he's proud of the UK's behind-the-scenes diplomacy, |
| 0:23.7 | which helped deliver a Middle East ceasefire and... Get the hostages out, get aid in and secure a better future for Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. |
| 0:31.2 | But the Conservative leader accuses the government of straining the UK's relations with Israel. |
| 0:36.3 | Labour decided to recognise a state of Palestine with no condition to release the hostages |
| 0:42.5 | still held in the tunnels of Gaza, rewarding terrorism. |
| 0:47.5 | Also on this programme, opposition MPs expressed their unease about new legislation |
| 0:52.3 | for dealing with the legacy of the conflict in Northern |
| 0:55.1 | Ireland. And what's the problem with getting higher earners to pay more tax? |
| 1:00.1 | I look at the emails I received from hospital managers telling me that they cannot get consultants |
| 1:04.0 | to work five days a week because it would cost them more money. |
| 1:08.2 | But first, the Prime Minister says Donald Trump's Middle East peace deal is a chance to bring |
| 1:13.1 | a terrible chapter in history to a close. |
| 1:16.3 | Secir Starma was making a common statement after returning from a summit in Egypt with the |
| 1:21.3 | US President and other world leaders. |
| 1:24.2 | Yesterday, under the first phase of the ceasefire agreement, Hamas released the remaining |
| 1:28.7 | 20 living hostages it captured more than two years ago, and Israel freed hundreds of |
| 1:34.2 | Palestinian prisoners. |
| 1:35.9 | The Prime Minister began his statement by condemning the attack on a synagogue in Manchester in |
| 1:41.0 | which two men were killed and an arson attack on a mosque in Peace Haven in East |
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