“It would not be responsible opposition if I suggested yes to every strike,” the Shadow Foreign Secretary adds.
He calls for a “generous scheme” for Ukrainian refugees seeking to come to the UK.
He is quizzed about depriving Putin of “jaguar cars, wedgewood pottery and chocolate truffles”.
He is asked if it’s Labour’s position to subsidise people for as long as the cost of living squeeze continues.
“They have changed electoral law to allow limitless donations to political parties. It’s hard to understand.”
Ignoring the over-representation of young black men as both victims and perpetrators of violence won’t stop families losing their sons.
I tried to get Badenoch on my show, but it was a straight “no” from Number 10 (as usual).
“And you’ve got to have mass testing that works” in schools, says the Shadow Justice Secretary.
The Education Secretary must make sure that: “young people can receive their education and they can get the testing that they now deserve”.
The framing of “facts versus feelings” won’t work for the liberal right on race any better than it has for the liberal left on immigration.
It seems to me there is truth on both sides of this argument. The nuances to which Lammy refers get lost once combat is joined.
There are clear challenges to the idea that all whites are privileged. The Government’s report must stick to the facts.
The ‘idiots’ who attacked statue of Churchill ‘deflect from the central message of Black Lives Matter’ campaign. he says.
Undoubtedly, Britain played a terrible part in the 17th and 18th-century history of slavery. Its act later ensured sweeping political and societal change.