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Today in Parliament

29/04/2025

Today in Parliament

BBC

Government

4.4160 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Alicia McCarthy reports on the condemnation of a Belfast-based rock group for calling on fans to "kill your local MP".

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

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Order! Order!

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Hello there, I'm Alicia McCarthy and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4 for

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Tuesday the 29th of April, where a minister has a blunt assessment of an Irish rap band

0:18.4

that apparently told fans to kill their local MP.

0:21.6

Are utterly vile. They make my blood boil.

0:26.6

Also tonight, MPs condemn an attack on tourists in Kashmir.

0:30.6

This was an act of terrorism and we should call it out for exactly for what it is.

0:35.6

And a bleak view of teenage life from the creator of the TV drama, Adolescence.

0:41.4

It is the Wild West out there and boys are hearing things and girls are hearing things,

0:46.7

which are really troubling and do affect them.

0:50.5

But first, there's been condemnation across the commons of a Belfast-based rap band

0:56.1

after footage emerged of one of its members appearing to tell concert goers

1:00.4

the only good tory is a dead Tory and kill your local MP.

1:05.7

The trio, Kneecap, have since apologised to the families of murdered MPs,

1:10.3

said David Amos and Joe Cox.

1:12.5

The video of the band is now being looked at by counter-terror police.

1:16.4

In the comments, the Home Office Minister Dan Jarvis condemned the comments.

1:20.2

Remarks like these are dangerous and irresponsible, and this government utterly rejects the views expressed by this group.

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Let me be crystal clear.

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Political intimidation and abuse have no place in our society.

1:37.2

But he went on to add that the police were investigating

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