Yesterday in Parliament 17 July 2025
Yesterday in Parliament
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🗓️ 17 July 2025
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Final PMQs before the summer.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, I'm Sean Curran, and this is yesterday in Parliament from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:09.9 | On Wednesday, the 16th of July, the Prime Minister told MPs |
| 0:13.7 | that former Conservative ministers had serious questions to answer about the Afghan data breach, |
| 0:20.3 | and the common speaker said the way the leak |
| 0:23.1 | was handled raised significant constitutional issues. Every session of PMQs begins with the Prime |
| 0:30.5 | Minister listing his official engagements for the day. The answer always ends in the same way. |
| 0:36.5 | This morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. |
| 0:39.1 | In addition to my duties in this House, I shall have further such meetings later today. |
| 0:43.2 | But before reciting that formula, the Prime Minister has the chance to comment on any subject he likes. |
| 0:49.0 | And yesterday, Sakeir Stama used the moment to make his first public comment about the data breach |
| 0:54.8 | that revealed personal information about thousands of Afghans who'd worked with British forces. |
| 1:00.6 | Yesterday, the Defence Secretary set out the full extent of the failings that we inherited. |
| 1:06.9 | A major data breach, a super injunction, a secret route that has already cost hundreds of millions of pounds. |
| 1:16.5 | Ministers who served under the party opposite have serious questions to answer about how this was ever allowed to happen. |
| 1:24.2 | Over in the Lords, one Conservative former defence minister, Lady Goldie, defended the |
| 1:29.4 | previous government's decision to go to court. The decision of the court to grant a super injunction |
| 1:34.4 | clearly reflected how gravely the court regarded the risk to life. A court injunction of the |
| 1:39.9 | laws is neither a cover-up nor political suppression of information. It is a court order. |
| 1:44.9 | In the Commons, the Conservative leader Kemi Badock didn't mention the relocation scheme |
| 1:49.7 | or respond to the Prime Minister's criticism. Instead, she focused on the economy. |
| 1:54.4 | Why don't we go through his end-of-term scorecard? The economy is contracting. |
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