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🗓️ 23 April 2025
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MPs are back from recess which means the return of PMQs Unpacked. Kemi Badenoch asks Keir Starmer whether he’s changed his mind on how to define a woman.
Hugo Rifkind unpacks the action from the Commons chamber with the help of Lara Spirit, Theo Usherwood and comedian Jon Harvey.
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0:00.0 | PMQ's Unpacked on Times Radio, unpacking the politics and cutting through the crossfire. |
0:07.0 | And I'm joined by the Times Politics Newsletter editor Laura Spirit. Hello, Laura. |
0:11.0 | Hello. Good to have you here, promoted from the back room, I see. I know, it's very exciting. |
0:14.0 | Wonderful to have you with us. And the comedian John Harvey, hello John. |
0:17.0 | Hello, Hugo. Nice to be here. Yeah, good place. |
0:19.0 | Yeah, good place. I'd like to see you. Look, how did you both spend recess? |
0:22.4 | Was it very, you must have had a very, very chilled time. |
0:24.6 | And John, you must have not really noticed. |
0:26.6 | Yeah, pretty much. |
0:27.7 | Although, you know, has a novelty politics hat on or lid on, you know, we all have recess, back to Sigma 9, you know, deal with domestic matters, you know. It's important times. For anyone who doesn't know, John has a secret identity. |
0:37.9 | I do. |
0:40.3 | I'm a very, very good friend of his excellence. |
0:41.1 | He Count Binface. |
0:42.0 | Absolutely, yeah. |
0:45.3 | I mean, I guess being an aristocrat, he's never going to make it to the Commons, is he? |
0:45.9 | That's right. |
0:47.5 | He's worried about this hereditary stuff. You're allowed to stand for office. |
0:49.5 | I've been worrying about that. I guess they were abolished hereditary peers. Yeah, there's loopholes but galore in this country. |
0:55.0 | You know, you just as well. |
0:56.0 | Just as well. |
0:57.0 | Laura, how about you? |
0:58.0 | I was off for Easter, but actually during Easter recess, |
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