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Westminster Hour

Westminster Hour 22 February2026

Westminster Hour

BBC

News, Government

4.0257 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Young people's challenges with learning and work

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0:00.0

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0:05.7

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

0:12.3

Coming up from Send to Neets, our focus is on younger people and the challenges they face with learning and work.

0:20.2

We'll discuss the government's plans to reform special educational needs provision in schools

0:25.6

and what to do about the rising number of jobless 16 to 24-year-olds.

0:30.4

I've been speaking to the former health secretary Alan Milburn about his review into that.

0:35.5

With Parliament returning after the half-term break, we'll also talk about the Wright Royals scandal

0:40.3

over Andrew Mountbatten, Windsor,

0:42.3

and the fallout from his relationship with Geoffrey Epstein.

0:45.3

He denies any wrongdoing, but some MPs are demanding

0:48.3

he should be ruled out of the succession.

0:50.3

We'll find out what my panel think.

0:52.3

But first, let's meet them. Kit Malt House

0:55.5

represents Northwest Hampshire for the Conservatives. He served briefly as Education Secretary

1:01.0

under Liz Truss. And before getting to Westminster, he was a deputy mayor of London under

1:06.6

Boris Johnson. Kit is a member of the Science and Technology Select Committee, but a lot of his time

1:12.0

is currently taken up with the assisted dying legislation, which he co-sponsored in the Commons.

1:17.8

But it's now in some difficulty in the House of Lords, isn't it, Kit?

1:22.5

Well, it's true. Things are looking tricky for us in the Lords, notwithstanding the fact that

1:27.4

the Commons voted to support the bill on several occasions, and it went through days and days, hundreds of hours of contemplation in the Commons.

1:36.2

There's a small number of Lords who seem intent on using procedural shenanigan, should we say, to try and talk the bill out.

1:42.2

We're trying to get them to understand that the

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