Disorder Disorder in the House of Commons
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Today we look at the chaotic scenes in Westminster over Gaza ceasefire votes.
A row erupted after the Commons Speaker allowed MPs to vote on a Labour motion on the Israel-Hamas conflict. The SNP and Conservatives accused Sir Lindsay Hoyle of breaking with precedent for allowing the votes - and chaos ensued.
Plus a row over who said what about government delays in payments to sub-postmasters.
Adam is joined by the BBC’s business editor, Simon Jack and Newsnight’s political editor, Nick Watt to go through both stories.
And a Trident missile has failed during a test for the second time in a row. Adam speaks to the man who revealed the news to the world, the Sun’s defence editor, Jerome Starkey.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, today. Wednesday was the day Parliament |
| 0:07.3 | were meant to be voting on the SMP motion calling for an immediate |
| 0:10.7 | ceasefire in Gaza. How did that go? |
| 0:13.3 | Reflect an outdated approach. |
| 0:15.3 | Yep, that is the sound of absolute chaos in the House of Commons because this vote on the |
| 0:25.4 | SMP motion and then a potential vote on a labor motion and a potential vote on a |
| 0:30.4 | conservative government motion on this issue descended into real, real rancor. |
| 0:36.5 | Scenes in the House of Commons, the likes of which I'm not sure I've ever seen and were |
| 0:42.4 | actually very reminiscent of when things |
| 0:44.2 | descended into total chaos during Brexit. So what actually happened? We will |
| 0:49.6 | discuss on this episode of Newscast. |
| 0:51.8 | Newscast. Newscast. |
| 0:52.8 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:54.4 | Why can't people buy a house? |
| 0:56.2 | Look at their wages. |
| 0:57.2 | Do you have any questions on things that are not related to math? |
| 0:59.2 | People who say that we were partying simply do not know what they are talking about. |
| 1:03.6 | The era of global warming has ended the era of global boiling has arrived. |
| 1:08.6 | It's the first time ever I've been able to say, well done, Kia. |
| 1:12.4 | I'll end by tempting her to update newscast and |
| 1:15.3 | update this house the prime minister is not under a desk hello it's Adam in the |
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