15/11/2025
The Week in Westminster
BBC
4.0 • 258 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The Guardian's political editor Pippa Crerar assesses the latest developments at Westminster.
Following a turbulent week for the government, with talk of plots to replace the Prime Minister and speculation over the budget, Pippa speaks to two Labour MPs, Chris Curtis and Rachael Maskell, about the mood on the Labour backbenches.
To discuss the challenges for BBC following the resignation of its director general, Pippa speaks to Conservative peer Tina Stowell, a former Head of Corporate Affairs at the BBC and Anna Sabine, the Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Culture, Media and Sport.
To discuss the state of the prison system, Pippa is joined by former Conservative Justice Secretary David Gauke who, earlier this year, carried out a review into sentencing for the government.
And, to give their take on a difficult week for the Prime Minister, Pippa is joined by the political editor of the News Statesman magazine Ailbhe Rea and Luke Tryl the Managing Director of the polling company More in Common.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.4 | This is Pippa Carreira of The Guardian with the week in Westminster. |
| 0:09.6 | Kirstarmer may have felt he was starring in his own Traitor saga this week, |
| 0:14.1 | as Downing Street's extraordinary attempts to shore up his leadership spectacularly backfired. |
| 0:20.3 | The Prime Minister's closest allies warned on Tuesday that any attempt to banish him |
| 0:25.0 | after the budget could destabilise the markets, international allies and the Labour Party. |
| 0:31.6 | Some of them pointed at the ambitious health secretary, unleashing a bitter row inside the government, |
| 0:37.0 | with Wes Streeting insisting |
| 0:38.4 | he was, and always has been, a faithful. |
| 0:43.0 | Kemi Badernock, the conservative leader, mocked all this drama in the Commons. |
| 0:47.4 | The real scandal, Mr Speaker, the real scandal is that two weeks from a budget, the government |
| 0:52.9 | has descended into civil war. |
| 0:55.2 | Instead of fixing the mess they've made of the economy, they're all... |
| 0:59.0 | Mr Speaker, they're all chuntering. |
| 1:04.7 | These are the feral MPs that Number 10 has been talking about. |
| 1:08.0 | They're not my words. |
| 1:09.5 | They're number 10's words, his words. |
| 1:12.0 | The Prime Minister hit back. |
| 1:14.2 | Mr. Speaker, this is a United team and we are delivering together. |
| 1:20.8 | Look what we're doing. |
| 1:22.4 | The fastest growth of the D7. |
| 1:27.3 | Five interest rate cuts. |
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