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Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Today in Parliament podcast from Monday the 20th of October.

The Culture Secretary says the decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from next month's match with Aston Villa was wrong and based

on the fact that the fans are Israeli and Jewish. We should be appalled by that and never allow it to

stand. She was speaking before the news that the team itself will not sell tickets to allow its fans

to attend the match. Also, university tuition fees in England will rise in line with

inflation from next year. The Conservatives say that wasn't Labour's story during the election

campaign. She promised graduates will pay less under Labour. Well, it turns out they will pay more,

quite a lot more.

And following calls for cuts to support for asylum seekers, a reform UK MP says they're not just getting free accommodation.

But free food, three meals a day, free pocket money, free cinema tickets.

But first, we've heard tonight that the Israeli football team, Maccabi Tel Aviv,

will not be allowing its supporters to buy tickets to their away match against Aston Villa next month. The decision has come, despite promises from the Culture Media and Sports Secretary Lisa Nandi earlier,

that the government would provide the police resources necessary

to allow Maccabi Tel Aviv fans to attend the match. Last week, Birmingham City Council ruled that

Maccabi fans should be excluded on safety grounds, following a risk assessment by West Midlands

police. Lisa Nandi accepted there were concerns about the past behaviour of a minority

of Maccabi fans, but she believed the police decision was taken over fears that fans would be

attacked because they were Jewish and supporting an Israeli team. She said that while the police

needed to be independent of government, this decision was not being made in a vacuum.

It was set against a backdrop of rising anti-Semitism around the world and the attack on the

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