18/06/2025

Today in Parliament

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🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Susan Hulme reports on Deputy Prime Minister's Questions, as Andrea Rayner and Chris Philp go head to head.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.9	Order. Order.
0:07.5	Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Wednesday, the 18th of June.
0:13.7	Coming up, Angela Rainer, standing in for the Prime Minister, calls for de-escalation in the conflict between Israel and Iran.
0:20.7	The situation in the Middle East is fast-moving and deeply concerning.
0:24.7	The Conservatives keep up the pressure over grooming gangs, saying authorities...
0:29.1	Covered it up because they cared more about so-called community relations
0:33.0	than about protecting vulnerable girls.
0:35.3	That is disgusting.
0:36.8	Also, with the announcement of more delays to HS2,
0:40.1	the Conservative shadow minister admits his government made errors.
0:44.3	I will not today pretend that the Network North Plan
0:47.1	was not a product of mistakes we made in the handling of HS2
0:50.6	because it clearly was.
0:52.5	And fury at wild campers who start wildfires.
0:57.0	Accessing the country is one thing, but no one has a God-given right to set fire to it with
1:01.3	barbecues.
1:02.8	Now, the Prime Minister had been attending the G7 summit in Canada, so his plane was only
1:08.4	just touching down back in the UK as his usual Commons question time got underway. So his plane was only just touching down back in the UK as his usual comments question
1:12.6	time got underway. So his deputy, Angela Rayner, stood in for him. In her first word,
1:18.3	she acknowledged the precarious international situation. The Prime Minister has been attending
1:23.3	the G7 summit in Canada. In an era of global instability, we are working with our partners
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