Summary
The Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle brings his pet parrot, Boris, into the Newscast studio.
He also reveals that he’s been "heavily lobbied" by women MPs not to change the rules on bringing children into parliamentary debates. Labour MP Stella Creasy was told it was against the rules to bring a child to a debate after her three-month-old son accompanied her earlier this week.
And Katya talks to Laura and Chris about the political ramifications following the deaths of people trying to cross the Channel in dinghies.
Newscast was made by Danny Wittenberg, Ali Gee and Ros Jones. Jonathan Aspinwall is the editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | So now I don't flamming this week. |
| 0:07.2 | No, but we've got two very exciting guests. |
| 0:09.4 | We have. |
| 0:10.0 | We've got Boris. |
| 0:11.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:12.0 | And the speaker of the House of Commons. |
| 0:13.7 | We've got the Prime Minister in the speaker |
| 0:15.3 | of the House of Commons. |
| 0:16.8 | Better than that, arguably. |
| 0:19.2 | We've got a parrot. |
| 0:20.3 | Boris the parrot. |
| 0:21.5 | One of many of Salinas's pets |
| 0:25.0 | perched their upon-lawers on-lawers' microphone. |
| 0:28.8 | I don't know if he's more nervous or I am, what do I think? |
| 0:31.8 | I can hear it in your voice, Laura. |
| 0:34.0 | You are. |
| 0:35.0 | Oh, he's properly eyeballing me. |
| 0:38.2 | So Lindsay, Boris is a well-traveled parrot, isn't he? |
| 0:41.2 | Because so this is just the latest venue for him to drop in on. |
| 0:44.3 | Because you're forever taking him from Westminster from here, |
| 0:47.5 | back to Charlie. |
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