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🗓️ 23 June 2025
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Sean Curran reports as the foreign secretary briefs the Commons on the US air strikes on Iran - and MPs debate security at UK military bases.
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0:00.0 | Order. Order. |
0:02.5 | Hello, I'm Sean Curran, and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4 for Monday the |
0:07.8 | 23rd of June, when the Foreign Secretary David Lame called on Iran to engage in talks about its |
0:14.4 | nuclear programme. This is a perilous moment in the Middle East, Madam Deputy Speaker. |
0:20.7 | Ways of strikes between Israel and Iran have now lasted for 10 days. |
0:25.9 | There are concerns that not enough is being spent on security at RAF Brise Norton, |
0:31.2 | following a break in last week. |
0:33.1 | I've walked the perimeter quite a few times, and that fence is not formidable. |
0:38.3 | Also on the programme, Labour MPs call on the work and pension secretary to drop plans to cut benefits for people with disabilities. |
0:46.3 | Will she please, please, please pause these reforms to ensure that these people that desperately need health needs aren't also forced into poverty. |
0:56.2 | But first, the Foreign Secretary David Lamy has confirmed that work is underway to bring British nationals stranded in Israel back to the UK. |
1:04.8 | I can confirm to the House that a Royal Air Force A400 has flown in to Tel Aviv and taken 63 British nationals |
1:15.8 | and their dependents to Cyprus from where they will be brought home this evening. |
1:21.6 | Further flights will follow in the coming days, security allowing. |
1:26.2 | He made that announcement as he delivered a common statement following |
1:29.6 | this weekend's American airstrikes on three nuclear sites in Iran. David Lamy said the UK |
1:35.7 | hadn't been involved in the attacks but had long-standing concerns about Iran's nuclear program. |
1:41.9 | My message for Tehran was clear. |
1:45.4 | Take the off-ramp, dial this thing down, |
1:49.7 | and negotiate with the United States seriously and immediately. |
1:54.1 | The alternative is an even more destructive and far-reaching conflict |
1:59.8 | which could have unpredictable consequences. |
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