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Westminster Hour

Westminster Hour 16 February 2025

Westminster Hour

BBC

News, Government

4246 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Ben Wright and my guests discuss the fast moving developments over Ukraine.

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0:00.0

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0:04.8

Hello and welcome to the Westminster Hour with me, Ben Wright.

0:08.6

One subject dominates this edition, the potential upending of decades of European security by President Trump.

0:15.7

What exactly is his plan for settling the war in Ukraine?

0:19.7

And will Ukraine itself be involved in negotiations?

0:23.0

And what role might NATO allies, including the UK, be expected to play?

0:27.5

The former Defence Secretary Grant Shaps tells us British troops will likely help police any peace agreement,

0:33.5

but only if there are sufficient security guarantees.

0:36.8

And with Parliament on its half-term break,

0:39.0

we'll take stock of developments on the ethical question dividing MPs, whether to back a new

0:44.8

law to allow assisted dying for some terminally ill adults. That is all coming up. First,

0:50.9

let's meet my panel. Joe Powell is the Labour MP for Kensington and Bayswater.

0:55.7

He won the seat at the general election and before coming into Parliament, he spent time campaigning

1:00.3

against so-called dirty money, money laundering and for more transparency over property ownership,

1:06.7

which I don't suppose is a popular cause among some of your wealthiest West London constituents.

1:11.8

Is it, Joe?

1:12.6

Well, you'd be surprised.

1:13.7

Actually, they're very concerned about the amount of empty property we have

1:16.8

and community has been hollowed out by dirty money.

1:18.9

So actually quite a consensus locally that we need to take that problem on.

1:24.3

Another newbie, Jess Brown Fuller, is with us too.

1:29.1

Liberal Democrat MP for Chichester. She also speaks for her party on hospitals and primary care. Welcome.

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