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Sophy Ridge On Sunday

Amber Rudd, Emily Thornberry & Rupa Huq

Sophy Ridge On Sunday

Sky News

Politics, News, News Commentary, Government

4.2157 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

With allegations of sexual harassment and abuse engulfing Westminster, Niall speaks to the Home Secretary Amber Rudd. He also talks to Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry and her Labour colleague Rupa Huq. #Paterson

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is hospice care. It's everything you'd expect and everything you wouldn't.

0:07.0

Happy birthday, Mum!

0:09.0

At Princess Alice Hospice, we've been providing specialists palliative and end-of-life care in our local communities for 40 years.

0:18.0

Over a third of the vital care we provide is funded by gifts in wills. Visit pah

0:25.1

dot org.uk slash gift in will to find out how you can leave a gift in your will to Princess

0:31.8

Alice Hospice and help it live on for all, for now, forever.

0:42.3

Hello and welcome to this Sunday with New Paterson podcast.

0:46.3

With allegations of sexual harassment and abuse engulfing Westminster, I sat down with the Home Secretary Amber Rudd to discuss what must be done.

0:55.0

I was also joined by the Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry and also her Labour colleague Rupa Huck.

1:00.0

It began when sexist and homophobic comments made by Labour MP Jared O'Mara emerged

1:14.6

and now nobody knows where it will end.

1:17.6

Westminster is in the grip of a full-blown crisis.

1:20.6

Politicians of all ages and all parties are facing accusations of sexual harassment, abuse and assault. A light is being shone into

1:29.3

Westminster's darkest corners. The sights are not pleasant. Sir Michael Fallon has already lost his

1:34.4

job as Defence Secretary and he denies an assault accusation. Conservative backbencher Charlie Elphick

1:40.0

has had the party with withdrawn after allegations about him were passed to the police, he denies

1:44.8

any wrongdoing.

1:46.3

On the Labour site, Kelvin Hopkins has been suspended pending investigation.

1:50.4

He denies the specific allegations, but of course was reprimanded by the party.

1:55.1

It is certainly not the case that things will end here.

1:58.9

With this in mind, and with senior politicians on all sides,

2:01.7

grappling without how to fix a deeply entrenched problem,

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