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Removing Churchill from £5 note not "wokery", says Churchill's granddaughter
- Title
- Removing Churchill from £5 note not "wokery", says Churchill's granddaughter
- Runtime
- 0:52
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Emma Soames, the granddaughter of Winston Churchill, disagrees that it is “wokery” that the wartime Prime Minister will not feature on new £5 notes.
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- “AI is basically sucking up all human knowledge... throwing it back... and charging a price”
- Runtime
- 1:10
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Talking Heads founding member David Byrne speaks to Faisal Islam about AI and its impact on creativity.
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- ‘I graduated last year... I’m already in £90k student loan debt’
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Gina Tindale, 22, who went to university from a low income background, says the necessity to take out a larger maintenance loan has significantly added to her debt.
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- Are too many people being signed off work for mental health issues? | BBC Politics Live
- Runtime
- 8:59
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Hundreds of GPs have told the BBC they have never refused to sign a sick note for a patient complaining of mental health issues.
Dr Lorne McEwan, a GP in Winchester, told Vicki Young on Politics Live that their role is to be the patient’s advocate and added: “We are often the only person in patients’ lives that they can go to for this sort of help and advice”.
Dr McEwan argued that “if the patient feels that it’s in their best interest to be signed off, it’s quite difficult for us to disagree with that”.
Also discussing the increasing number of fit notes were Labour MP Charlotte Nichols, Conservative MP Dr Kieran Mullan and Reform UK councillor Laila Cunningham.
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- 'I’m 22 and I have £90k of student loan debt'
- Runtime
- 4:16
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Nick Watt interviews Gina Tindale, 22, who graduated last summer and is already in more than £90,000 of student loan debt. The graduate, who was the first in her family to go to university, is calling on the Government to change the Plan 2 student loan system.
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- Title
- David Byrne on the future of AI, global conflict and US politics
- Runtime
- 11:34
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Founding member of Talking Heads David Byrne speaks to Newsnight about the future of AI, its impact on creativity, US politics, and global conflicts. The artist, mid-way through a UK tour, supporting his recent album Who Is The Sky? speaks to Faisal Islam while in Manchester.
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- Are billionaires a bad thing for the UK? | BBC Politics Live
- Runtime
- 8:51
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Your Party parliamentary leader Jeremy Corbyn has said the rising number of billionaires is “terrible”.
Speaking to the BBC’s Politics Live, the former Labour Party leader said, “what we are doing is just worshipping billionaires at the expense of the needs of millions.”
Richard Farleigh, the Australian entrepreneur and former dragon on Dragon’s Den, agreed that wealth inequality is terrible but warned that discouraging innovation and wealth will make everyone poorer. He also said that he wouldn’t move to the UK from Australia now, as he did when he was younger, saying the UK tax regime shows “a hatred of success”.
Also discussing the rising numbers of billionaires were Labour MP Polly Billington and Conservative MP Bradley Thomas.
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- “The entire student loan system is crumbling, people have lost faith in it”
- Runtime
- 0:40
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis says the Government “has to look” at changing aspects of the system, adding: “In the short term the very minimum is to reduce its repayment threshold freeze.”
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- "Ill-considered" | JD Vance's friend and Republican clash over US "goal" in Iran
- Runtime
- 8:13
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Sohrab Ahmari, UnHerd's US Editor and confidant of Vice President JD Vance, and Republican Congressman Marlin Stutzman debate the United States's aims in the war with Iran and its impact on public opinion. Presented by Victoria Derbyshire.
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- Is the UK spending enough on defence? | BBC News
- Runtime
- 8:10
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- The UK’s response to the US-Israel strikes in Iran has raised questions about the country’s military readiness and overall defence capabilities.
The conflict in the Middle East has prompted renewed debate over whether Britain is investing enough in its armed forces at a time of increasing global instability.
On Politics Live, Vicki Young discussed the UK’s defence spending with Labour MP John Slinger, Conservative MP David Reed, Ava Santina Evans from PoliticsJOE, and the BBC’s defence correspondent, Jonathan Beale.
Read more on this story on the BBC News website: https://bbc.in/40pSwLr
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- Former MI6 boss on US and Israeli attacks on Iran | BBC News
- Runtime
- 7:40
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Former MI6 boss Sir John Scarlett says he would expect the service to have known about the US and Israeli strikes on Iran before they took place.
Speaking to BBC World At One, Scarlett says he knows "the capabilities" of the UK's Secret Intelligence Service, and that "there was a very clear build up" of movement in the region before the strikes on 28 February.
The US government's aim of making sure Iran never has a nuclear weapons programme could "probably not" happen without regime change in the country, Scarlett adds, saying it is "fundamentally important" Iran does not have "nuclear capability".
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- Martin Lewis on how the Iran war could affect your finances
- Runtime
- 5:23
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis discusses how the Iran war could affect energy prices in the UK and the potential for any Government intervention. Interview by Victoria Derbyshire.
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- 'Urgent need to get UK forces up to fighting readiness', Lord Sedwill says | BBC News
- Runtime
- 7:25
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- The UK will pay a price for the delay in military deployment the war in the Middle East, according to former National Security Adviser Lord Sedwill.
Speaking to the BBC's Today programme, Sedwill says "there will be consequences", including frustration from the US and other allies in the Gulf region.
"Under successive governments there's been an erosion of the basics", he says, adding "there is an urgent need to get our existing forces up to fighting readiness."
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- Baroness Warsi criticises government's new definition of 'anti-Muslim hostility' | BBC Politics Live
- Runtime
- 10:43
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Baroness Warsi has criticised the government's social cohesion plan and its new definition of “anti-Muslim hostility”.
Warsi, the co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims, told the BBC's Politics Live, the definition was "weak" and "watered down" and didn't refer to the term Islamophobia.
The plans also include measures aimed at promoting integration and tackling "extremist influence" in institutions, such as charities and universities.
An independent group, led by former Conservative minister Dominic Grieve, was established by the government last year to provide advice on a definition of "anti-Muslim hatred/Islamophobia".
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- Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg criticises plans to ban social media for under 16s | BBC Politics Live
- Runtime
- 7:28
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg has said plans to ban social media for under 16s are "old fashioned".
Speaking on the BBC’s Politics Live, the former Conservative cabinet minister said "we need to allow children to grow up".
The UK government is currently consulting on whether to implement a social media ban, inviting young people and their parents and guardians to submit comments ahead of a government decision on the proposal.
Politics Live presenter Vicki Young was also joined by Labour MP Sean Woodcock, the Green Party’s Baroness Bennett and Haroon Chowdry, the Chief Executive of the Centre for Young Lives.
Chowdry has called for MPs to vote to restrict access to social media platforms for under 16s.
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- How will US-Israeli war with Iran affect energy prices? | BBC News
- Runtime
- 8:21
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- The benchmark oil price has passed $100 a barrel for the first time since 2022 as major energy producers in the Middle East cut production.
Further waves of US and Israeli airstrikes on Iran have increased concerns that major disruption to energy supplies from the region threaten the global economy and push up prices for consumers and businesses.
The World At One's Sarah Montague and PM's Evan Davis discuss just how big an effect it's having.
Read more on this story on the BBC News website: https://bbc.in/4dckp0Z
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- PM Keir Starmer said the UK and US are continuing to work together over Iran. #BBCNews
- Runtime
- 0:36
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Title
- "Don't build girls' schools right next to naval bases," says ex-Trump National Security Adviser
- Runtime
- 0:42
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- President Trump's former National Security Adviser John Bolton responds to reports of a US or Israeli strike on a girls' school in Iran.
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- John Bolton on Trump's "biggest risk" with Iran and "juvenile" White House
- Runtime
- 4:41
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Former US National Security Adviser John Bolton, who served in Donald Trump's first term, discusses the "biggest risk" for the President in Iran and what he regards as "juvenile" communications from the White House. The former Trump adviser also addresses reports that an apparent strike believed to involve US forces hit an Iranian girls’ school near a naval base, killing children. Interview by Matt Chorley.
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- Alan Johnson & Gillian Keegan clash over "ally" Trump and UK involvement in Iran war
- Runtime
- 12:16
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Former Home Secretary Alan Johnson and former Education Secretary Gillian Keegan discuss the UK's level of involvement in the US-Israel war with Iran. Presented by Paddy O'Connell, with Political Editor Nick Watt.
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- 'I worked three jobs at university instead of taking out a student loan'
- Runtime
- 0:43
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Ayman Chughtai, a 21-year-old psychology student, tells #Newsnight about his decision to work three different jobs so he didn’t have to take out a student loan for his final two years at university. Ayman took out a Plan 5 student loan for his first year in 2023, and believes the repayment system is “inherently unfair”.
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- Title
- Is the UK being dragged into war with Iran? #BBCQuestionTime #BBCNews
- Runtime
- 1:19
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Title
- “We will not stop until our people are safe”, PM Keir Starmer said. #BBCNews
- Runtime
- 1:19
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Title
- George Monbiot warns against UK getting involved in US-Israel War with Iran | BBC Politics Live
- Runtime
- 6:52
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Guardian columnist George Monbiot has warned that the UK getting involved in the US-Israel War could make the country a target.
Speaking on the BBC's Politics Live, Monbiot said a "war without end, war without aims, war without purpose" is "exactly what we need to be avoiding".
Also discussing the the situation in the Middle East were Labour MP Naushabah Khan and Conservative MP Ben Spencer.
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- The UK is sending four additional Typhoon fighter jets to Qatar, Keir Starmer said. #BBCNews
- Runtime
- 0:34
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Title
- "The Americans have no plan..."
- Runtime
- 0:38
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- “Is this going to be a long protracted war?”
“I think it’s going to be a long protracted problem”
The Independent's World Affairs Editor Sam Kiley believes the US had “no plan” before carrying out strikes on Iran.
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- Isabel Oakeshott responds to Ed Davey's ‘tax exile’ remarks | BBC Politics Live
- Runtime
- 10:32
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Journalist Isabel Oakeshott has responded to Ed Davey’s criticism of her in the House of Commons.
“We rightly expect our brave armed forces to protect British citizens around the world in crises like this, but that includes tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott," the Liberal Democrat Leader said when speaking about British nationals living in the Middle East.
Oakeshott, who lives in the United Arab Emirates, told the BBC's Politics Live “his intervention was both really strange and really ignorant."
"I pay tax on property, you pay tax on fixed assets, you also continue to pay tax on your UK earnings," she said.
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- “Ignore it” | Ex-UK National Security Adviser & Gillian Tett on Trump's 'not Churchill' Starmer jibe
- Runtime
- 6:18
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- As war continues to upend the Middle East, President Trump lashes out at Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. How serious is this falling out? Former UK National Security Adviser Sir Mark Lyall Grant and Financial Times's Gillian Tett discuss the potential impact of the US President's comments. Interview by Victoria Derbyshire, with Newsnight Political Editor Nick Watt.
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- Title
- PM Keir Starmer has defended his government's approach to the conflict in Iran. #BBCNews
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Title
- Trump's strikes on Iran 'one of the riskiest things he's done', Republican says | BBC Politics Live
- Runtime
- 5:10
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Jennifer Ewing of Republicans Overseas UK has told the BBC that US President Donald Trump’s decision to attack Iran was a controversial decision with Americans, and particularly with Republican voters.
"Politically, I would say it's one of the riskiest things he's done," she told Adam Fleming on Politics Live, adding she wasn't sure what the US was trying to achieve.
People who voted for the president “do not have the tolerance” and he does not “have the mandate to enter into another war", she said.
Mayor of South Yorkshire, Oliver Coppard, Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Callum Miller MP and Spiked columnist, Ella Whelan also took part in the discussion
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- "I think the American public are going to accept this attack"
- Runtime
- 1:28
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Fred Fleitz, National Security Council chief of staff during President Trump's first term, is asked by Victoria Derbyshire how the US public will respond to US military deaths in the conflict with Iran.
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- Title
- "This is a time to call out Trump"
- Runtime
- 0:36
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Independent MP and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn calls the US war on Iran an "incredibly dangerous moment".
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- "More interested in starting a war" | Jeremy Corbyn criticises Trump's decision to strike Iran
- Runtime
- 6:42
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Independent MP and former Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn, editor of The Spectator and former cabinet minister Michael Gove and Middle East expert Dr Sanam Vakil discuss President Donald Trump's decision to strike Iran. Presented by Victoria Derbyshire, with Newsnight Political Editor Nick Watt.
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- Title
- Rachel Reeves has delivered an update on her economic plans in her Spring Statement. #BBCNews
- Runtime
- 0:35
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
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- Government 'still has work to do' on economy, IFS director says | BBC Politics Live
- Runtime
- 6:03
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- The director of the economic think tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said the government "still lots of work to do" to sort out the public finances, after Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered her Spring Statement to the Commons.
Reeves said her economic plan was "even more important in a world that…has become more uncertain", in the wake of escalating tensions in the Middle East after the US and Israel attacks on Iran.
Speaking on the BBC's Politics Live, IFS director Helen Miller said there would be calls to spend even more on defence.
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- "Very dangerous territory” | How is the UK handling Trump, Iran & the US?
- Runtime
- 6:04
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Former cabinet minister Michael Gove, Your Party's Jeremy Corbyn and Middle East expert Dr Sanam Vakil discuss the UK's approach to President Donald Trump and Iran. Presented by Victoria Derbyshire.
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- Donald Trump expressed "disagreement with our decision not to get involved", PM says. #BBCNews
- Runtime
- 0:17
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
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- Iran de-escalation needed after ‘reckless attacks’, UK Foreign Secretary says | BBC Radio 4 Today
- Runtime
- 11:17
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- The UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he has agreed to an American request to use British bases to attack Iranian missiles sites, in order to protect British lives.
He previously refused permission to use UK military bases to support any potential strikes on Iran.
Speaking on the Today programme Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper told the BBC’s Nick Robinson that preventing missile strikes on countries in the Middle East where there were so many British citizens was the right thing to do.
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- Britons should "register their presence" with the Foreign Office, Yvette Cooper said. #BBCNews
- Runtime
- 0:39
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Title
- Zack Polanski challenged on “unproductive wealth”, welfare and international relations
- Runtime
- 20:09
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Newsnight's Paddy O'Connell interviews Zack Polanski, the Green Party Leader of England and Wales.
This interview was recorded on 4 February 2026.
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- Title
- Is the UK 'squeezing the life' out of pubs and restaurants with high business rates? | BBC News
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- 21:08
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Chef Tom Kerridge says high business rates are “squeezing the life” out of the hospitality sector in the UK, with knock-on effects ranging from youth unemployment to lost community hubs.
A BBC Question Time audience member asks: “Is it time to reform business rates for hospitality?”
The panel features Labour’s Lisa Nandy, Conservative Alicia Kearns, Liberal Democrat Jess Brown-Fuller, Chef and businessman Tom Kerridge, and journalist Esther Krakue.
Catch up with the whole of the debate with BBC Question Time on iPlayer and Sounds now.
#BBCQuestionTime #BusinessRates #BBCNews
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- PM Keir Starmer has vowed to "keep on fighting" after Labour lost in Gorton and Denton. #BBCNews
- Runtime
- 0:47
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Title
- Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election | BBC News
- Runtime
- 7:22
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- The Green Party's Hannah Spencer has won the Gorton and Denton by-election, with 14,980 votes.
Spencer, a plumber by trade, beat Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin with 10,578 votes, and Labour’s Angeliki Stogia with 9,364 votes.
"Life has changed. Instead of working for a nice life, we're working to line the pockets of billionaires. We are being bled dry," Spencer said in her speech after the win.
The Greater Manchester constituency had long been considered a safe Labour seat, with the vote triggered by the resignation of former Labour MP Andrew Gwynne in January due to ill health.
Read more on this story on the BBC News website: https://bbc.in/4qWdU5O
For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com/news
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- Hannah Spencer has become the Green Party's first MP in northern England. #GreenParty #BBCNews
- Runtime
- 1:02
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Title
- The Green Party won their first Westminster by-election with victory in Gorton and Denton. #BBCNews
- Runtime
- 0:45
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Title
- People not reading books 'could undermine democracy', historian says | Politics Live
- Runtime
- 12:44
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Historian and podcaster Dominic Sandbrook has warned of the impact people reading fewer works of fiction could have.
“Weirdly, I think reading books is an important element of democratic plural society because it reminds you there's more to life than your own experience," he told BBC Politics Live's presenter Vicki Young.
Sandbrook has just launched a new podcast called The Book Club, which he hopes will encourage people to read.
He was joined on the programme by Conservative peer Michael Gove, Labour MP Sarah Coombes and journalist and historian Taj Ali.
For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com/news
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- Title
- 'My student loan debt has risen from £84k to £110k'
- Runtime
- 0:48
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Max Linford tells Victoria Derbyshire how much his student loan debt has risen despite paying off £8000 since graduating from Surrey University in 2023.
#Newsnight #studentloans #student
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- Title
- We are 'addicting babies and toddlers' to tech, campaigner says - BBC Political Thinking
- Runtime
- 7:55
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- A leading campaigner has warned of the dangers of social media for children but admits a ban for under-16s, in the wake of recent changes to Australian law, is "not a silver bullet."
Speaking to the BBC's Political Thinking, Baroness Kidron told Nick Robinson said "we are in a digital world, we have an AI future, and we can't uninvite the next generation."
"Access to children should be conditional," she adds.
The crossbench peer, who was an award-winning film director before joining the House of Lords, has become a leading voice in Parliament on online safety.
Last month the government launched a three-month consultation on banning social media for under-16s in the UK, after the world's first ban took effect in Australia last year.
Read more on this story on the BBC News website: https://bbc.in/4qWdU5O
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- Title
- What can be learned from the US approach to illegal immigration? | BBC Politics Live
- Runtime
- 4:00
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- US President Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union address on Tuesday, during which he spoke at length about tackling illegal immigration.
On Politics Live, the panel discussed whether other countries could learn any lessons from the Trump administration’s approach.
Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy argued that it “stirs up anti-immigration sentiment, which is bad for everybody".
“There is nothing we can learn from the [US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s] behaviour," she added.
Conservative peer Lord Mackinlay praised Trump’s record, saying: “On immigration, top marks for Donald Trump… he has delivered for the American people.”
Also joining Politics Live presenter Vicki Young was Harry Quilter-Pinner, the director of the centre left think tank, the IPPR.
For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com/news
#PoliticsLive #BBCNews
- Title
- "That is not fair, is it?" | Government minister pressed over approach to student loan repayments
- Runtime
- 5:39
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Victoria Derbyshire interviews Schools Minister Georgia Gould MP about the Government's approach to student loan repayments. With additional discussion from Labour MP Helen Hayes and historian Anthony Seldon.
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