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Calls for Sunak apology over PMQs trans jibe to Starmer

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BBC

News, Daily News, Politics

4.36.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at calls for the PM to apologise after joking about Labour's position on trans people when the mum of murdered teenager Brianna Ghey - who was transgender - was in Parliament.

Brianna’s father has told Sky News the comments were “degrading”.

Chris talks James through the controversy.

And, the government has announced a package aimed at sorting problems in dentistry. Health correspondent Dominic Hughes explains the measures. Dentist Brenda Macmillan explains the problems. Patient Stephen Davies explains what it’s like being on the receiving end.

You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. Today's Newscast was presented by James Cook. It was made by Chris Flynn with Sam Maclaren, Josh Jenkins and Natasha Mayo. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:04.6

Chris, I sometimes wonder whether anyone actually cares about Prime Minister's

0:08.8

question time apart from us and no doubt a few newscasters.

0:12.4

What do you think? I think it is a fair critique, not least because it is wildly

0:16.2

atypical of wider goings on in Parliament, and usually it's noisy and theatrical and there's quite a lot of rehearsed lines and it is a

0:25.4

commentary about what else might be going on in the country or around the world but

0:30.6

just occasionally James it makes news in and of itself.

0:35.0

Yeah and today was one of those occasions wasn't it because when Kieer Stimer and Rishi Sunak

0:40.3

were having their exchanges something happened and before we hear that you need to know two things one the mother of the

0:48.0

murdered teenager Brianna Jai was visiting Parliament today Esther Jai and two Brianna who was 16 when she was

0:55.4

killed was transgender now both of those things are important as we'll hear this

1:00.1

was the moment it's a bit rich Speaker, to hear about promises from someone who's broken every

1:05.8

single promise he was elected on.

1:08.7

I think I counted almost 30 in the last year.

1:11.6

Pensions, planning, peerages, public sector pay, tuition fees,

1:16.2

child care, second referendums, defining a woman. Although in fairness that was only 99% of a U-turn the list goes on but the theme is the same

1:27.8

Mr Speaker it's empty words broken promises and absolutely no plan.

1:33.0

of all the weeks to say.

1:37.0

Of all the weeks to say that when Brianna's mother is in this chamber,

1:50.0

shame, parading as a man of integrity when he's got absolutely no responsibility.

1:59.1

Just before we discuss that, Chris, can you explain the 99% reference what does that mean? Yes so when

2:04.6

Kia Starmer was asked about this last year he said 99.9% of women haven't got a penis.

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