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Today in Parliament

22/04/2026

Today in Parliament

BBC

Government

4.4162 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Mandelson vetting row at PMQs.

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts.

0:06.1

Order. Order.

0:08.7

Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Wednesday the 22nd of April.

0:14.9

Coming up, Kemi Badernock reckons the appointment of Peter Mandelson should spell the end of the Prime Minister's career.

0:21.8

Will the Prime Minister finally take responsibility and go?

0:26.9

Yes!

0:28.3

But Sir Keir Stammer says all her accusations have been wrong.

0:32.1

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

0:34.6

She rushed to judgment as she always did, just like the Iran war.

0:39.1

Also, conservatives claim a victory.

0:41.9

The government has finally given in, and we've got what we've been asking for, a statutory ban on smartphones in schools.

0:48.7

But first, the Prime Minister has faced more calls for him to resign over his decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as UK ambassador to Washington.

0:58.2

The issue dominated the Commons for a third day, following the evidence given to MPs yesterday by Sir Ollie Robbins, the former top civil servant at the Foreign Office.

1:08.6

In his evidence, Ollie Robbins had said he'd also been asked to find a job as an ambassador

1:13.4

for another political figure, Matthew Doyle, a request that had made him quite uncomfortable.

1:20.4

Lord Doyle was Kirstehm's communications chief, but has now been suspended from the Labour Party

1:25.7

over his links with a convicted paedophile.

1:28.8

In the Commons, a Conservative Mike Wood asked the Prime Minister about the claim at the very start of the session.

1:35.2

Can the Prime Minister deny that Downing Street considered appointing Matthew Doyle to a diplomatic position?

1:42.5

Kirst Amher said Matthew Doyle had worked in public service for many years.

1:46.8

When people leave roles in any organisation,

1:49.6

they're often conversations about other roles they want to apply for,

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