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Yesterday in Parliament

Yesterday in Parliament 21 May 2026

Yesterday in Parliament

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3.910 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Row about Russian oil at PMQs.

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BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.6

Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Yesterday in Parliament podcast.

0:10.0

On Wednesday the 20th of May, it was the first Prime Minister's question time

0:13.9

since the political ructions over the election results and the Labour leadership.

0:19.1

Often, the harder the times, the louder they cheer.

0:23.4

Labour MPs drowned out a minister as Sir Kier Starrmer came into the chamber.

0:28.9

Despite the bad election results, despite the denunciations and the Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham

0:34.5

eyeing up his job, the Prime Minister was all smiles and chat as he took

0:38.8

his seat for question time. After all, not everything is going wrong. His team, Arsenal,

0:44.4

are champions of the Premier League. And he opened with a mischievous comment about a man

0:49.4

famous in Manchester. It would be remiss of me not to comment on one of Manchester's great heroes

0:56.1

moving on after almost a decade.

1:00.0

So let me congratulate

1:01.8

Pec Guadiola

1:03.2

on all his success

1:05.1

at Manchester City.

1:07.3

Ah, you see what he did there,

1:08.9

though it wasn't greeted

1:10.0

with exactly gales of laughter by Labour MPs,

1:13.6

many of whom may be quite keen on Andy Burnham in the top job.

1:17.5

But just to roll his own pitch even more thoroughly,

1:20.7

the Prime Minister went on to announce a 12-month road tax holiday for Holliers

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