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🗓️ 24 June 2025
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Susan Hulme reports as MPs discuss the situation in the Middle East and NATO spending targets.
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
0:05.0 | Order! Order! |
0:07.2 | Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Tuesday, the 24th of June. |
0:13.2 | Coming up, the government says we need to be clear-eyed and hard-edged about the security challenges we face. |
0:19.1 | NATO's member countries meet at a time when the security situation is more in flux than at any time in a generation. |
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0:32.3 | Why aren't the government projecting a more positive, hope-filled vision about the beauty and value inherent in living |
0:39.5 | in a diverse society. |
0:41.3 | And when's the next asteroid dew? It could be big. |
0:44.9 | In the slightly disturbing jargon of the people who work in this area, they tend to call |
0:48.7 | city killer asteroids. |
0:51.1 | Well, MPs gathered for a second day running to try to make sense of the fast-moving events in the conflict between Iran and Israel and assess the UK government's response to them. |
1:01.9 | The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, was like President Trump on his way to a meeting of NATO in the Netherlands. |
1:08.3 | He's pledged to meet NATO's new spending target of 5% of national |
1:12.4 | income split between core defence and national resilience. Hanging over the meeting was the |
1:18.1 | question of whether the ceasefire announced by President Trump could hold. Unvailing the government |
1:23.4 | security strategy in the Commons, the Cabinet Minister Pat McFadden underlined the precariousness of |
1:29.5 | the situation. |
1:30.8 | News of a ceasefire is welcome, but as we've seen, even in recent hours, the situation |
1:36.7 | remains fragile and the focus must now be on a credible plan to stop Iran developing |
1:42.5 | nuclear weapons. |
1:43.8 | A few minutes earlier, though opposition MPs pressed the Foreign Secretary hard on whether |
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