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Today in Parliament

24/10/2025

Today in Parliament

BBC

Government

4.4162 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Alicia McCarthy reports on moves to tackle ticketless fans getting into football matches and MPs hold their first debate on hoarding disorder. Also, the rules on debating royal affairs in the Commons and th 75th anniversary of the chamber re-opening after bomb damage during World War II.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:06.2

Order, order.

0:08.5

Hello, I'm Alicia McCarthy, and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4 for Friday the 24th of October,

0:16.5

where peers back plans to stop ticketless entry into football grounds.

0:20.3

The actions of a few shouldn't be allowed to compromise the safety and security of the majority.

0:26.9

Also on this programme, a call for more help for chronic hoarders.

0:30.6

People can't physically get into their homes anymore.

0:34.4

There's no room.

0:35.6

So then they might live in their car or they might go to stay with

0:39.1

somebody else, but it will just carry on. And Parliament marks the 75th anniversary of the

0:45.1

reopening of the Commons Chamber after its destruction in the Blitz. Churchill was adamant that it

0:50.7

should be, quote, in keeping with the original style of the palace. So that's the original neo-Gothic Victorian 1840s designs by Augustus Pugin and Charles Barry.

1:00.8

But first, a bill to crack down on ticketless fans getting into top-flight football matches in England and Wales

1:07.5

has cleared its first hurdle in the Lords.

1:10.7

The proposal follows disorder at the Euro 2020 final between England and Wales has cleared its first hurdle in the Lords. The proposal follows disorder at

1:12.5

the Euro 2020 final between England and Italy at Wembley when around 2,000 people got into the

1:18.8

ground illegally. A report by the Whitehall troubleshooter Lady Casey said ticketless, drunken and

1:24.9

drugged up thugs could have caused deaths.

1:32.2

Putting the bill forward, the Labour Peerlaw Brennan explained that currently getting into a ground without a ticket wasn't specifically against the law and the aim of his bill was to deter

1:38.1

potential offenders.

1:39.6

The intention is not to criminalise fans or create barriers to genuine supporters enjoying the game.

1:46.0

Instead, the focus is on preventing those who would seek to cause disorder and harm from entering stadiums,

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