Q&A: MP Suspension, ID Cards and Is The Devil Real?
The Two Matts
The New World
4.2 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Is a thirty-five day suspension for one MP really enough? Are ID cards a good idea or an invasion of privacy? And 'Slow Horses' or 'The Crown'. All these questions and more are answered in this edition of The Two Matts, with Matt Kelly and Matt d'Ancona.
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- Trevor Dobson
- Michael Rosenthal
- Jane in Primrose Hill
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| 0:56.5 | journalism. Hello and welcome to our Sunday Q&A session. Thank you for joining us. Yeah, happy |
| 1:02.0 | Sunday. Happy Sunday. First question, Matt. Is a 35 day suspension from Parliament really the best |
| 1:08.2 | we can think of by way of punishment for an MP who's being caught red-handed |
| 1:12.0 | trying to sell himself to the gambling industry. Whatever happened to hanging, drawing and |
| 1:16.8 | quartering. Highland Girl on Spotify. What a good question. Well indeed. This refers to Scott Benton. |
| 1:24.3 | Benson, yeah. Yeah. Who, where is he? Blackpool South. |
| 1:28.2 | Blackpool South, who last week was handed a, well, a recommendation of a 35-day suspension by the Standards Committee. |
| 1:34.5 | And this means there's a real chance that if the Commons carries that, he will face a petition for recall and there'll be a bar election. |
| 1:44.2 | And it's a very narrow majority so Labor could win that seat. |
| 1:46.9 | But this is a great point. |
| 1:48.9 | It is a very good point. |
| 1:49.6 | You know, I mean, obviously we're not advocating the return of capital punishment. |
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