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Today in Parliament

15/09/2025

Today in Parliament

BBC

Government

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🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Susan Hulme reports as Shabana Mahmood makes her Commons debut as home secretary and MPs question the dropping of charges in a Chinese "spy" case.

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.

0:06.0

Order! Order.

0:08.5

Hello, I'm Susan Hume, and this is the today in Parliament podcast for Monday the 15th of September.

0:14.8

Coming up, the Home Secretary calls Elon Musk's talk of violence and regime change in the UK, abhorrent.

0:21.8

Whether you're a hostile state or a hostile foreign billionaire,

0:24.9

no one gets to mess with British democracy.

0:28.0

Also, as charges against two men accused of spying for China in Parliament are dropped,

0:33.7

anger from MPs who say the security minister is not taking the danger seriously enough.

0:39.4

He doesn't say that China is a threat. He say they are a challenge. That is a ludicrous position to take.

0:45.4

A Conservative forces an emergency debate on the appointment and sacking of Lord Mandelson.

0:50.9

It will be held tomorrow. And it's standing room only for a session on the problems

0:55.5

facing children with special educational needs in England. What I am not and what my beautiful

1:01.8

child is not is a burden. We did not cause this crisis. But first, the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmoud has warned hostile foreign

1:13.8

billionaires against messing with British democracy following a video link appearance by

1:18.9

Elon Musk at a protest in London at the weekend. The Unite the Kingdom rally was organised by

1:25.2

the far-right activist Tommy Robinson and was attended by more than 100,000 people.

1:31.3

In her first Commons appearance since being made Home Secretary in the Ministerial reshuffle,

1:36.4

Shabana Mahmoud said many demonstrators had been exercising their ancient right to protest peacefully,

1:43.0

but not everyone was peaceful.

1:45.7

26 officers were injured and 24 protesters were arrested. Those violent thugs will face the full

1:52.5

force of the law. But those who turn to violence on Saturday do not represent who this country

1:58.3

really is. When the US tech billionaire Elon Musk addressed the rally by video, he talked about massive

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