Should Prince William be getting involved with Gaza?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 20 February 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Prince William has expressed his deep concern about the terrible human cost of the middle east conflict and expressed his desire to see an end to the fighting as soon as possible.
There's lots of head scratching going on right now: is the heir to the throne calling for a ceasefire? Is this the governments line or just the monarchy's position? Did this come from the Foreign Office? And should he be getting involved at all?
Meanwhile, as Labour finally find a way of demanding an immediate ceasefire, we talk to the SNP's Stephen Flynn who says it wouldn't have happened without pressure from them.
Later, why is Rishi Sunak quoting Eisenhower to talk to the NFU? And what is happening to England's rural vote...?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Global Player original podcast. |
| 0:07.3 | This is gearing up to be a massive day, a massive week, for what happens to events in the Middle East. |
| 0:14.5 | We've just heard overnight from the US a new form of words to call for an immediate ceasefire. |
| 0:21.4 | We've, in the last few minutes, heard the call for an immediate ceasefire |
| 0:25.3 | from the Labour Party and Kirste-Starma amending an SMP motion. |
| 0:30.4 | And just before we're sitting down, we hear of the deep concern, |
| 0:34.3 | not of a politician this time, but of the heir to the throne. |
| 0:38.3 | Yeah. Prince William has issued a statement, highly unusual, talking about the need for |
| 0:44.4 | peace in the Middle East, that there are too many people have died. Of course, all humanitarian |
| 0:48.9 | issues. But the comments is about to vote on this. Should the heir to the throne be getting involved right now |
| 0:58.3 | in some of the most contentious political territory there is at the moment? |
| 1:04.5 | Welcome to the Newsagents. |
| 1:10.1 | The News Agents. |
| 1:11.9 | It's John. |
| 1:12.6 | It's Emily. |
| 1:13.2 | It's Lewis. |
| 1:13.7 | And later in the program, we'll be putting on our wellies, |
| 1:17.2 | because Rishi Sunak has been talking about farming, |
| 1:20.5 | Dwight D. Eisenhower, and rural votes. |
| 1:24.2 | Farming tonight, as we call it. |
| 1:26.8 | I like Ike. |
| 1:30.4 | But first, we're going to bring you the gist of that statement on the Christ in the Middle East from Czech's notes Prince William. Because |
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