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🗓️ 23 April 2025
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Alicia McCarthy reports as MPs question Sir Keir Starmer at 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 there, I'm Alicia McCarthy, and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4 for Wednesday |
0:12.8 | the 23rd of April, where the Conservative leader accuses the Prime Minister of lacking |
0:17.6 | moral courage following a Supreme Court ruling on sex and gender. |
0:22.7 | He cheered an ideology that denied safe spaces to women and girls because he thought it was cool to do so. |
0:29.0 | But Kea Stama reckons Kemi Badenock should be more worried about the threat to her party from Nigel Farage's Reform UK. |
0:36.2 | The member for Clacton's going to do what he always does. |
0:39.8 | Eat the Tory party for breakfast. |
0:42.6 | Also tonight, a committee hears about one woman's battle to get treatment for her eating disorder. |
0:48.2 | I can't stop making myself sick. |
0:49.7 | I'm so frightened that my baby's going to die, that I'm going to get ill. |
0:52.7 | And my doctor looked me dead in the face and laughed at me. And are delays in getting driving tests leading to learners |
0:59.3 | booking them too early? They take the test whether they're ready or not because it's actually |
1:04.9 | cheaper in some parts of the country than doing a driving lesson. So why wouldn't you? But first, |
1:10.5 | the Conservative leader has accused the Prime Minister of being a weather vane |
1:14.2 | that twists in the wind, following a Supreme Court ruling that when it comes to equality |
1:18.9 | law, the term woman refers to biological sex. The ruling means that transgender women with |
1:25.4 | a gender recognition certificate can be excluded |
1:28.3 | from single-sex spaces. A Prime Minister's questions, Kemi Badenok challenged Sakea Stama |
1:33.6 | over his previous position on the issue. |
1:36.2 | Does the Prime Minister now accept that when he said that it was the law that trans women |
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