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All Out Politics

Freedom of Information, the Trade Bill and Genocide

All Out Politics

Sky News

News Commentary, Politics, News, Government

4.2156 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Adam Boulton and guests discuss the Cabinet's messaging on summer holidays and the recent Parliamentary rows over Freedom of Information and genocide.

What links the Trade Bill and the government's position on genocide and why have newspapers formed an alliance to raise concerns about FoI requests?

Joining Adam this week are the Labour MP for Rhondda Chris Bryant, the Mail on Sunday's deputy political editor Anna Mikhailova and Sky's chief political correspondent Jon Craig.

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0:00.0

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0:19.5

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0:22.3

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0:32.0

Hello, welcome to the All-Out Politics Podcast.

0:38.3

I'm Adam Bolton and joining me this week are the Labour MP for Ronda, Chris Bryant,

0:43.3

the mail on Sunday's Deputy Political Editor Anna Mikhailovla

0:47.3

and Sky's Chief Political correspondent John Craig.

0:50.3

Thanks very much indeed for being with us.

0:52.3

This week we're going to touch briefly on the government's confusion over whether we're all going on a summer holiday.

0:58.5

We'll also look at some of the internal rouse going on in Parliament over such matters as the Freedom of Information Act and the whole question of who in this country should define what genocide is and what action needs to be taken.

1:19.3

Let's start, though, with the somewhat conflicting messages about travel this summer coming out from ministers.

1:27.7

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1:29.2

I understand the reasons for being optimistic,

1:32.0

but some things have got to go right for us,

1:35.3

and the vaccine program has got to continue to be successful.

1:39.0

We've got to make sure that we don't get thrown off course by new variants.

1:43.9

I don't want to kind of unnecessarily raise people's hopes.

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