Panic alarms and bodyguards: How unsafe are MPs?
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4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at the government announcement of £31m for MPs’ security with politicians from both sides of the house.
Labour MP Kim Leadbeater speaks to Adam about the threats she faces, how she deals with them, and what’s changed in the years since the murder of her sister Jo Cox in 2016.
Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood joins Adam and Chris to give his view on the new security measures, following protestors recently targeting his family home.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, Chris. |
| 0:05.6 | Hi. |
| 0:06.2 | So today on newscasts, we're going to be talking about the issue of the safety of |
| 0:09.8 | members of parliament, because there's been a government announcement today today and we will talk about the details of that. |
| 0:14.3 | But one thing I've noticed is whenever you talk to MPs about this issue they say I wish you didn't have to talk about this |
| 0:19.9 | I wish I could talk about something else that's kind of actually of importance to everyone. |
| 0:24.0 | Yes, they do because they'd much rather be talking about, you know, what's motivating in them and what's passionate for them and what their constituents care about and all of that. |
| 0:30.3 | So let's make that real. What would you rather be talking about than MP's safety? |
| 0:34.0 | Not to downplay the importance of that issue obviously. |
| 0:36.0 | Well I could answer that question in a journalistic way or in a slightly more frivolous way and I think I'll go for the latter. |
| 0:41.0 | Which is I remain just because I was a sort of victim of it yesterday. |
| 0:48.1 | Baffled by the quandary of how you go about eating in a cleaner way so that I don't spill yogger and goodness knows what else |
| 0:56.2 | all over my shirt. |
| 0:57.2 | And currently I am protected because it is winter and therefore more often than not on the |
| 1:00.7 | telly I wear a coat and only a tiny proportion |
| 1:03.0 | to my shirt is visible but soon that won't be the case. Have you heard of napkins? |
| 1:07.6 | Yes maybe I've got to do that and took it into my collar in the sort of is that a |
| 1:11.5 | vaguely French way like in the olden days. |
| 1:13.4 | Yes. |
| 1:14.5 | Well my answer to the original question of what I'd rather be talking about. |
| 1:17.4 | I'm going to give both options serious journalistically and frivolous. |
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