27/04/2026
Today in Parliament
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🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Alicia McCarthy reports on the latest developments in the Mandelson affair as MPs prepare to vote on whether the prime minister should face a parliamentary investigation into his conduct.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.1 | Order. Order. |
| 0:08.7 | Hello there, I'm Alyssa McCarthy, and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4 for Monday |
| 0:14.1 | the 27th of April, where there are demands for Labour MPs to be allowed to vote according |
| 0:19.6 | to their conscience on whether Kirstama should face an investigation into accusations that he misled the Commons. |
| 0:26.5 | Labour MPs must surely be given a free vote and not be forced into feeling like accomplices |
| 0:31.5 | to a cover-up. Also on this programme, the House of Lords stands firm over banning children |
| 0:37.2 | from accessing harmful content on social media. The House of Lords stands firm over banning children from accessing harmful |
| 0:38.8 | content on social media. If we are not here to protect children, then why are we here? |
| 0:45.9 | Whose moral compass are we following? And there's condemnation of a weekend car bomb explosion outside |
| 0:52.6 | a police station in Northern Ireland. |
| 0:54.9 | One MP says those behind the attack... |
| 0:57.4 | Have no support from the decent people of Northern Ireland. |
| 1:01.5 | Not now and not in the past. |
| 1:03.9 | This is not representative of who we are. |
| 1:06.7 | But first, MPs will have the chance to vote tomorrow |
| 1:09.6 | on whether the Prime Minister should face a parliamentary investigation into claims he misled MPs over Lord Mandelson's security vetting. |
| 1:18.4 | The Conservative leader, Kemi Badenock, asked the Speaker to grant a debate on referring Kier Starmat to the Commons Privileges Committee. |
| 1:26.4 | The Prime Minister has denied misleading MPs |
| 1:28.9 | about whether Peter Mandelson's vetting to be the UK's ambassador to the US |
| 1:32.8 | followed due process, |
| 1:35.0 | and over his comment that no pressure whatsoever was applied to officials at the Foreign Office. |
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