15/04/2026
Today in Parliament
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🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Sean Curran reports as Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch clash over defence at Prime Minister's Questions.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.6 | Order! Order. |
| 0:08.9 | Hello, I'm Sean Curran, and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4 for Wednesday, the 15th of April, |
| 0:15.5 | when the Prime Minister said he wouldn't give in to pressure from Donald Trump over the conflict in Iran. |
| 0:21.7 | I'm not going to yield. It is not in our national interest to join this war, and we will not do so. |
| 0:27.7 | The Conservative leader Kemi Badenok calls on Sakhir Stama to publish a long-awaited blueprint on military spending. |
| 0:34.7 | Our armed forces are at the end of their tether, |
| 0:37.9 | waiting for this government to fund the Strategic Defence Review. |
| 0:42.5 | Also tonight, the Liberal Democrats back calls |
| 0:45.2 | for an Australian-style ban on social media for under 16s. |
| 0:49.7 | This needs to be big tech's seatbelt moment. |
| 0:54.3 | But first, Sarkier Stama has insisted he is not going to yield to pressure from Donald Trump |
| 1:00.2 | after the US president threatened to change a trade deal with the UK because of the Prime |
| 1:05.6 | Minister's handling of the Iran War. |
| 1:08.0 | My position on the Iran War has been clear from the start. We're not going to |
| 1:12.5 | get dragged into this war. It is not our war. And a lot of pressure has been applied to me to take |
| 1:20.0 | a different course. And that pressure included what happened last night. I'm not going to change my |
| 1:26.0 | mind. I'm not going to yield. It is not in our national |
| 1:29.4 | interest to join this war and we will not do so. I know where I stand. The Prime Minister made |
| 1:35.0 | his comments after he was challenged by the Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davy, who repeated |
| 1:40.4 | his call for the King's State visit to the United States to be cancelled. |
| 1:45.0 | In a phone call with Sky News last night, President Trump has threatened to rip up his trade deal |
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