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Today in Parliament

16/07/2025

Today in Parliament

BBC

Government

4.4160 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Susan Hulme reports from Westminster where Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch clash over the economy at this week's edition of Prime Minister's Questions.

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:04.8

Order. Order.

0:07.3

Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Wednesday the 16th of July.

0:13.2

Coming up, the Prime Minister reacts angrily to Kemi Badernock's criticism of the economy.

0:18.1

She comes here every week and just talks the country down.

0:23.1

Mr Speaker, I'm not talking the country down, I'm talking him down.

0:27.3

Kier-Starmer says conservatives have questions to answer over the Afghan data breach and gagging order.

0:33.6

One ex-ministered the aim was only to protect lives.

0:37.6

A court injunction of the laws is neither a cover-up nor political suppression of information.

0:41.6

It is a court order.

0:43.7

And a prickly moment with the Welfare Secretary over disability benefits.

0:48.1

Why did you ignore disabled people, please?

0:50.1

Well, I have answered that question. You might not like the answer.

0:53.4

But first, the Prime Minister has said the previous Conservative government has serious questions to answer over a data breach which revealed the details of thousands of Afghans who had supported British forces and the super-injunction which blocked reporting of the breach.

1:09.6

Sir Keir Starrmer told MPs there'd always been

1:12.0

cross-party support for the UK to honour its obligations to Afghans who served alongside British

1:18.0

forces. But he was intent on laying responsibility for this situation at the door of the Conservatives.

1:24.8

We warned in opposition about conservative management

1:28.2

of this policy.

1:29.7

And yesterday the Defence Secretary set out the full extent

1:33.7

of the failings that we inherited.

1:36.6

A major data breach, a super injunction,

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