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"Which politician... is going to put front and centre in their manifesto that they want prison reform?"

Former adviser Salma Shah says politicians should aim for a lower prison population "because you want crime to be reduced"

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"The Labour Party is afraid to mention Brexit - it was a catastrophe and everybody knows it deep in their bones"

Comedian Stephen Fry gives his views on the impact of Britain leaving the EU

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"I was trying to count the justice secretaries since 2010, and I think I've got to nine, there's one I can't remember"

Chief prisons inspector Charlie Taylor says "if you have that level of churn... you get systems that don't have leadership"

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"I will do everything I properly can... to keep the British people safe and ensure there is justice in her case"

Justice Secretary Alex Chalk met the family of murdered woman Joanna Simpson, who wish to block her killer's release from prison

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"You can't just decouple from China, but you can't treat China like an American or European company"

Labour's Jonathan Reynolds says the UK relationship with China involves "cooperation" but "we have to confront these issues where they exist"

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"Ukraine is winning and Russia is losing"

UK defence chief Admiral Sir Tony Radakin says Russia's aim of taking control of Ukraine "has not happened, and never will happen"

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"Would you commit to increasing [prison] funding?" #BBCLauraK asks Labour's Jonathan Reynolds

"It's a key area of public spending that's just not delivering as the people expect" replies Reynolds

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"Do you accept that one of the reasons for [problems in prisons] is because for many years money was being taken out?" asks #BBCLauraK

"In recent years there has been huge investment" replies Justice Secretary Alex Chalk

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"It's clear that the relevant security protocols were in place"

Justice Secretary Alex Chalk says there were enough staff in HMP Wandsworth when Daniel Khalife escaped, but asks "were the relevant protocols followed [as] they should be?"

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"It's a pretty squalid place"

Comedian Stephen Fry describes his experience of helping with the radio station at HMP Wandsworth, the prison that terror suspect Daniel Khalife escaped from this week

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“We really need to get those children back”

Children’s Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza tells #BBCLauraK that there are now 1.8 million children “persistently absent” from school and that it’s “double the number from before the pandemic”

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"It's scandalous what they have allowed to happen in our schools"

Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says "Rishi Sunak himself bears responsibility" for crumbling concrete in schools, because "he cut the budgets"

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“The country is crying out for hope”

Journalist Piers Morgan tells #BBCLauraK about meeting Rishi Sunak on a flight and telling him he should copy the changes made by the England cricket team and “[get on] the attack”

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“Do you think the welfare of the younger generations is being looked after properly by the current political establishment?” asks #BBCLauraK

“Absolutely not, at the moment” says Children’s Commissioner Dame Rachel De Souza

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“One thing we need to do for young people of today is protect them from the… climate crisis”

Chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is campaigning for the ban on onshore wind to be lifted

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"It's a straightforward way that... I would cut the costs that parents are facing"

Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says Labour's plan to limit branded items that parents of school children must buy would "make it easier" for them

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"Just Stop Oil protests have had the complete opposite effect to what those protestors... thought they would get" says journalist Piers Morgan

Chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall says "radical" movements for change need to draw attention

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"We need to get [to net zero] in a... sensible way, we need to carry people with us"

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt says the UK has cut emissions "more than any other major country" but methods need to be "pragmatic and balanced"

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“I have never hacked a phone… no one’s produced any evidence”

Journalist Piers Morgan denies allegations that he told reporters to hack phones and accuses Prince Harry, who is suing Mirror Group Newspapers, of being a “shameless hypocrite”

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Original tweet : https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1698258096320331983

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“Do you accept that the decisions made about cutting back public spending are part of the reason we’ve ended up in this situation [with crumbling schools]?” asks #BBCLauraK

“No” says Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, who says school funding was protected

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