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Hello, I'm Sean Curran and this is yesterday in Parliament from BBC Radio 4.

The Home Office Minister Dan Jarvis joined other MPs on Tuesday, the 29th of April,

in calling for the rap group Kneecap to be dropped from this year's Glastonbury line-up after footage emerged of one of the rappers appearing to call for Tory MPs to be killed.

Lining the walls of the Commons Chamber above the Green Benches is a series of shields commemorating the lives of MPs who were killed during the First and Second World Wars,

or by acts of terrorism or extremism. The most recent plaques are in memory of the murdered MPs,

Joe Cox and Sir David Amos. On Monday night, the rap group Neacap said they never intended to hurt

the Cox and Amos families after footage emerged of one of the trio

appearing to call for MPs to be killed.

Downing Street dismissed the apology as half-hearted

and a Home Office Minister, Dan Jarvis, joined in the condemnation.

Remarks like these are dangerous and irresponsible,

and this government utterly rejects the views expressed by this group.

Let me be crystal clear. Political intimidation and abuse have no place in our society.

A conservative, Mark Francoir, a close friend of the late Sir David Amis, accused Neacap of incitement to murder and complained that the group was still booked to appear at Glastonbury.

It would be unconscionable for Neacap to appear, at least whilst the police inquiry is underway.

Neacap should surely be barred today. To be crystal clear, does the government agree with that or not?

Yes or no?

Dan Jarvis said it wasn't for ministers to say who should play Glastonbury.

It's for the organisers of the festival, but there is, as I have said,

an ongoing live police investigation. So the government would urge the organisers at the

Glastonbury Festival to think very carefully about who is invited to perform there later this year.

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