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Today in Parliament

29/01/2025

Today in Parliament

BBC

Government

4.4162 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Susan Hulme reports on Prime Minister's Questions where Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch accuse each other of blocking growth.

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0:00.0

BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:04.6

Order. Order.

0:07.0

Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Wednesday the 29th of January.

0:13.1

Coming up, as the Chancellor sets out her route map to growth,

0:16.8

Kemi Badernock reckons the government is putting roadblocks in the way instead of tearing them down.

0:21.8

President Trump is doing it in America.

0:24.0

Argentina is taking a chainsaw to regulations.

0:27.1

Even the EU is not going as far as this left-wing government.

0:30.9

The Prime Minister says he won't take lessons from her.

0:33.4

She's got a nerve. They broke the economy, completely destroyed it.

0:37.2

They broke the health service, completely destroyed it. They ruined us on prisons and everything else you can mention.

0:43.6

But is the growth project just for the south of England?

0:46.7

Reminded me a wee song we used to sing when we're children. There is a happy land, but it's far, far away.

1:02.3

And warnings that people with eating disorders or HIV could qualify for an assisted death under the proposed legislation. Are you OK with a 19-year-old young man who decides to discontinue treatment qualifying under this bill?

1:09.9

But first, Prime Minister's questions came not long

1:13.0

after the Chancellor Rachel Reeves made her big speech in Oxfordshire

1:16.7

on boosting economic growth.

1:19.2

Her announcements included airport expansions,

1:21.8

such as backing for a new runway at Heathrow

1:24.1

and projects across England,

1:26.4

for example, what's known as an Oxford Cambridge

1:29.2

Growth Corridor. Back at Westminster, the opposition leader thought these things sounded familiar

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