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Westminster Hour

Westminster Hour 15 February 2026

Westminster Hour

BBC

News, Government

4.0257 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Keir Starmer tells the UK “be ready to fight”

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0:00.0

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0:05.5

Hello and welcome to this edition of The Westminster Hour with me, Nick Erdley and my guests.

0:11.4

Coming up, get ready to fight.

0:13.2

That was Keir Starmour's stark message at the Munich Security Conference,

0:17.0

as he warned of multiple threats to the UK and Europe. The government is ramping

0:22.6

up defence spending, but is it enough? And where will the money come from? The Prime Minister

0:28.1

survived a torrid week at Westminster when his leadership seemed to be in the balance. But was

0:33.4

this a crisis averted or merely postponed? We'll discuss that too.

0:38.1

And was the government right to ban Palestine action as a terrorist organisation?

0:43.7

Or was it disproportionate as the High Court has ruled?

0:47.6

First, let's meet my guests.

0:49.6

David Pinto Dyshinsky is the Labour MP for Hinden in North London.

0:53.9

Squeaked in narrowly at the general election.

0:56.9

Fifteen votes in it, David.

0:58.5

That's right, but they all count.

1:00.4

Any tips for a Prime Minister on living close to the political edge?

1:04.5

Oh, I wouldn't deign to give advice to the PM.

1:07.6

I think he's doing a good job in delivering for the British people.

1:10.1

I suspect we will scrutinise that in a bit more detail later on. A Conservative Sir Alex

1:15.8

Shelbrook represents the Yorkshire seat of Weatherby in Easingwood, an engineer before entering

1:21.4

Parliament. He served briefly as a defence minister under Liz Truss. He also leads the UK

1:26.1

delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

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