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Post Office: ‘People are furious in the House of Commons that parliament has been misled’, Labour MP says
We were joined by the Labour MP Liam Byrne, who chairs the Commons Business and Trade Committee.
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Netanyahu in ‘voyage to confrontation’ with US, former Israel Labour Minister says
We are joined by former Labour Minister Yossi Beilin.
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Rwanda bill: ‘Unelected Labour peers are blocking our plans’, says Tory Deputy Chairman
We spoke to Conservative Deputy Chairman Rachel Maclean. We started by asking her whether, following the 1922 committee meeting, Tory MPs may have given the prime minister only a temporary reprieve until after the upcoming local elections.
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Frank Hester’s reported comments about Diane Abbott ‘showed deep seated racism’ says Labour’s Dawn Butler
We spoke to the Labour MP Dawn Butler before Downing Street accepted that the comments are racist.
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The Political Fourcast: Did Tory budget steal Labour policies – and May election rumblings
Will we have a May General election? Will there be massive Conservative defeat in any Election that we do have this year? And what’s the economy got to do with it?
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Galloway wins in Rochdale after campaigning on Gaza and Labour disowns candidate
Now George Galloway’s Workers party of Britain took Rochdale from Labour with forty percent of votes cast.
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Vaughan Gething cleared of ministerial code breach over donations for Welsh Labour leadership campaign
The Welsh Parliament, the Senedd, was told that Vaughan Gething – who is one of the candidates to succeed Mark Drakeford as Welsh Labour leader and First Minister – had not breached the ministerial code. It follows news that he’d accepted 200 thousand pounds in donations for his leadership campaign.
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MP Safety Debate: Jo Cox’s death was ‘not as a result of a protest’ says Labour MP
We were joined by Labour MP Lucy Powell, who serves as the shadow leader of the House of Commons.
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“I am very careful’, says Labour MP Barry Sheerman after receiving a death threat last year
We spoke to the Labour MP for Huddersfield Barry Sheerman who told the Commons he has to ‘watch where he walks’ after he received a death threat last year.
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‘Utterly reject idea that Labour party can tell the Speaker what to do’ says Labour’s Lisa Nandy
We were joined by Lisa Nandy, who’s the Shadow Secretary for International Development.
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FactCheck: the Lindsay Hoyle Gaza ceasefire vote row between SNP, Conservatives and Labour explained
The Commons Speaker said he wanted MPs to consider “the widest possible range of options”.
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Labour call for immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza for first time
For the first time, Labour has called for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” in Gaza.
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Labour ‘still has to fight for every single vote’ despite by-election victories says Shadow Minister
We spoke to Labour’s Chris Bryant, the Shadow Minister for Creative Industries & Digital, and began by asking him if he thought voters had already made up their minds about who they’d support at the general election.
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Labour wins two emphatic by-elections, overturning large Tory majorities
The Labour Party may be thankful that, despite having to suspend two candidates over alleged anti-semitism, two emphatic overnight by-election victories mean they’ve ended the week with a pair of new MPs.
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UK economy: Will Labour raise taxes to avoid spending cuts?
James Murray is the Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury. We asked if Labour were planning to raise taxes in order to avoid spending cuts.