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Yemen strikes: The political fallout

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BBC

Politics, Daily News, News

4.36.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

We look at how Westminster is reacting to the US and UK airstrikes in Yemen.

Laura and Paddy discuss why the UK got involved, Sunak’s decision not to ask Parliament first, and Labour backing the military action. Laura’s got Sir Keir Starmer on her BBC One show on Sunday, and the Sunday Times’ Gabriel Pogrund is currently writing a book about him. Gabriel joins to give Newscasters the inside track on what’s going on inside the Labour party.

You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell. It was made by Chris Flynn with Hanna Ward. The technical producer was Jack Graysmark. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.0

Well, everything changed in the week.

0:06.9

Newscasters know they've listened to Adam all week.

0:09.4

Suddenly, there was a big change in the news agenda. There was, and you might even have perfectly understandably

0:16.1

woken up on Friday morning if you're someone who goes to bed before kind of

0:19.1

nine ten o'clock and thought oh I heard the radio UK and US strikes on Yemen, military strikes.

0:25.7

There was I making earnest phone calls for much of Thursday about Labour's promise or not

0:31.4

promised to spend 28 billion pounds a year on green infrastructure

0:35.3

and clean energy and did their sums really add up and are they going to be able to do that

0:39.8

when actually suddenly a hugely important foreign policy development came across our desk.

0:45.9

So of course that means the news since then and the news over much of the weekend is going

0:49.2

to be dominated by that.

0:50.7

And also that because to you listening, you still are we are weekly programs

0:55.4

Laura's on the telly mine on the radio therefore you set out in one direction

1:00.0

north northeast and then obviously occasionally you have to change south-southwest and that's

1:05.7

what's been happening in the newsrooms we've got expert witnesses for you on

1:09.8

the huthies on Yemen and we'll also hear a call to let Parliament decide these strikes in the future.

1:15.8

Don't go sending missiles as a Prime Minister from the UK without permission.

1:20.3

And it's one of those things that gets nerves jangling in Westminster,

1:24.0

something that always makes me slightly think that you get the SW1 village

1:28.0

trying to sort of insert itself into a huge global conversation at a really critical moment because of course there isn't

1:36.0

actually a hard and fast rule that Parliament must have a vote on military action but

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