Westminster Hour 7th December 2025
Westminster Hour
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🗓️ 7 December 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | Hello and welcome to this edition of The Westminster Hour with me, Ben Wright, and my guests. |
| 0:11.5 | Coming up with the Prime Minister hosting President Zelensky in London, |
| 0:15.5 | we'll discuss the chances of a just peace in Ukraine and what further support its allies might need to give. We'll hear from |
| 0:23.0 | a former NATO Secretary General about that and the security threats to the UK. We'll talk about |
| 0:28.8 | the fracturing domestic political scene too ahead of the publication of a landmark study of the last |
| 0:34.0 | general election. What clues does it hold to the voting trends |
| 0:37.9 | which could determine the outcome of the next one? |
| 0:41.3 | But first, let's meet my panel. |
| 0:43.6 | Chris Curtis was elected as the Labour MP for Milton Keynes North last year. |
| 0:48.1 | He's also co-chair of the Labour Growth Group |
| 0:51.0 | and sits on the housing communities and local government select committee. |
| 0:55.1 | Now, Chris, never mind the cliches about roundabouts and concrete cows. I read this week |
| 0:59.3 | that Milton Keynes is now pioneering the use of delivery robots that trundle around the town |
| 1:04.3 | delivering groceries. Have you seen them? Are you a fan? Is Milton Keynes once again the future? |
| 1:09.8 | Milton Keynes has always been the future, Ben. We have... These are not novel to us anymore. |
| 1:14.3 | We've had robots delivering our groceries for many years now. Sometimes they do get stuck, |
| 1:18.7 | but we're always willing to help them out. We also have autonomous buses on our roads, |
| 1:24.1 | and we've got the second fastest Formula One team in the world that used to be the fastest. |
| 1:28.1 | We are consistently the technological city of the future. |
| 1:32.5 | And when we hear a lot at the moment about the Oxford Cambridge arc, |
| 1:35.6 | I do like to continually remind people that the largest economy and the one that contributes most |
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