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Has Starmer misled parliament? Plus Lucy Powell wins

Has Starmer misled parliament? Plus Lucy Powell wins

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We thought when we organised this podcast that there would just be the newly announced deputy Labour leader to discuss – Lucy Powell beat Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson by 87,407 votes to 73,536. But instead we also have evidence the Prime Minister may have lied to Parliament over the collapse of the China spy case, and there is a manhunt under way to recapture a dangerous criminal released by mistake.

Bad news clearly comes in threes for No. 10: Lucy Powell was not their pick for the job; lying to Parliament is the kind of thing that the ministerial code is quite clear on; and the criminal in question is the Epping migrant hotel sex offender.

Oscar Edmondson speaks to James Heale and the Sunday Times’ Gabriel Pogrund.

Produced by Oscar Edmondson.

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