24/02/2026
Today in Parliament
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🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Sean Curran reports as MPs call for the release of papers concerning Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's role as trade envoy.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | Order! Order! |
| 0:08.5 | Hello, I'm Sean Curran, and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:13.2 | For Tuesday, the 24th of February, when the Liberal Democrats called for the release of files |
| 0:19.1 | relating to the appointment of Andrew Mountbatten |
| 0:22.2 | Windsor as a trade envoy 25 years ago. |
| 0:26.4 | Andrew Mountbatten Windsor shamed our country and the royal family. |
| 0:31.5 | A minister agrees to publish the documents about the former prince. |
| 0:35.5 | A rude, arrogant and entitled man who could not distinguish between the public interest |
| 0:41.7 | which he said he served and his own private interest. |
| 0:45.3 | Also tonight, should social media be banned for under 16s? |
| 0:50.2 | The Prime Minister is being blown around like a paper bag on this issue. |
| 0:54.6 | But first, MPs have approved a Liberal Democrat motion |
| 0:58.0 | demanding the release of documents relating to the decision |
| 1:01.4 | to appoint Andrew Mountbatten Winter as a trade envoy in 2001. |
| 1:07.1 | The question is, as on the order paper, |
| 1:09.5 | as many as of that opinion say, I. |
| 1:12.7 | Aye. |
| 1:13.9 | Of the contrary, no. |
| 1:15.6 | I think the eyes have it. |
| 1:17.0 | The eyes have it. |
| 1:19.3 | Because the Lib Dems had used a parliamentary procedure known as a humble address, |
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