“I would love to be back on the squad”
Former cabinet minister Penny Mordaunt says she has been approved to seek selection to become a Conservative MP again and that she’s “always toed the party line” on issues like ECHR and net zero
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“We want good people to go into public life”
Reform UK's Richard Tice says more should be spent on MPs security after the man accused of murdering Ann Widdecombe was also charged with preparing acts of terror including against Nigel Farage
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“Why are we still seeing [politicians] targeted like this”
Katie Amess, the daughter of murdered MP David Amess, says the killing of Ann Widdecombe shows politicians are not “safer today” than they were at the time of her father's murder
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“[They are] under the strongest license conditions that have ever been available”
Justice Secretary Alex Norris defends the handling of the early release of 700 prisoners but says they don’t know yet how many of them have been tagged
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“There is a threat to politicians that is increasing”
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch discusses threats she and other politicians have received and says it’s “tough” but that “we must not let that stop us from doing our jobs”
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“We don’t want you to be punished for working harder”
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch defends her new proposal to scrap the "cliff edge" that means parents in England lose out on childcare support when they earn more than £100,000 a year
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On the #BBCLauraK panel...
Former Cabinet Minister Penny Mordaunt
Editor-in-Chief of The Independent, Geordie Greig
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What does Kemi Badenoch have in common with ageing rockers Marillion, and sequinned singer, Katherine Jenkins?
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“I am talking about a system that works on NHS principles”
PM Andy Burnham tells #BBCLauraK he is proposing a new universal system to provide free social care and discusses the experience of his dad Roy, who recently died after living with dementia.
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