Matthew Taylor
Starmer: refugee numbers should be ‘uncapped’
Sir Keir Starmer – Refugees numbers should be ‘uncapped’
— Sophy Ridge on Sunday (@RidgeOnSunday) March 13, 2022Labour leader Sir @Keir_Starmer says he believes the number of refugees the UK takes in should be uncapped - and calls for "emergency protection visas".#Ridge: https://t.co/BC0u05ZA5A
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Labour would levy ‘windfall tax’ on oil and gas companies
The fallout from the war in Ukraine is destined to exacerbate the cost of living across the world, putting pressure on everything from the price of wheat to the price of fuel. Ridge asked if Labour was looking at taking action in this area:
— Sophy Ridge on Sunday (@RidgeOnSunday) March 13, 2022How would Labour cope with the increasing cost of living?@Keir_Starmer says his party would introduce a windfall tax on oil and gas companies and use it to reduce energy bills.#Ridge: https://t.co/mjTDPxpsyM
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Boris Johnson still not fit to be Prime Minister
— Sophy Ridge on Sunday (@RidgeOnSunday) March 13, 2022#Ridge asks: Do you think Boris Johnson should resign?@Keir_Starmer: "I haven't changed my mind on Boris Johnson. I think he has lost the moral authority to lead. I don't think he's fit to be prime minister."https://t.co/twnACZFIZN pic.twitter.com/QhBk5mEnhw
Michael Gove – I may take in a refugee from Ukraine
With Vladimir Putin continuing to wreak devastation in Ukraine, the United Nations has estimated that the war has seen 2.6 million people flee the country. The UK government has devised a ‘Homes for Ukraine’ scheme aimed at resettling refugees with obliging citizens, and Michael Gove, the minister responsible for it, joined Sophie Raworth to explain more about the details. Raworth also asked the Housing Secretary if he would be making use of the new scheme himself, which is expected to play host to tens of thousands of people:
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) March 13, 2022Michael Gove tells #Raworth he's exploring the option of personally taking in Ukrainian refugees
Housing Secretary sets out a scheme for people in the UK to be offered £350 a month to open their homes to people fleeing the warhttps://t.co/YsDBRcP7lh pic.twitter.com/RYjsTRyrLS
Refugee schemes avoids ‘slow, bureaucratic process’
Gove was also in the Sky News studio with Sophy Ridge, who asked about the nature of the new refugee scheme, focusing on the requirement that participants must explicitly name a Ukrainian person before they can house them. Gove defended this arrangement, arguing that the alternatives had their own practical problems:
— Sophy Ridge on Sunday (@RidgeOnSunday) March 13, 2022People who want to welcome Ukrainian refugees into their home will need to name a Ukrainian person or family.@michaelgove says the alternative would be the govt attempting to make matches, and this could be a "slow, bureaucratic process"#Ridge: https://t.co/8pLlbOvBDA pic.twitter.com/gUZEpWzr7G
No one raised security concerns with me about Lord Lebedev
The Prime Minister’s friendship with the Lord Lebedev, the Russian-born businessman who owns the Evening Standard, is earning him considerable media scrutiny. It has been revealed that Sir John Sawers, the former head of MI6, had expressed concerns about Lebedev, whose father was a KGB agent, and the concerns were raised again when Johnson put his friend forward for a peerage. Lebedev has strongly denied that he is ‘some agent of Russia’. Raworth asked Gove for his reaction to the media reports:
Use of chemical weapons would be a ‘game changer’
And finally, Raworth spoke to the Polish President Andrzej Duda, asking him about Putin’s potential use of weapons of mass destruction. Both the Nato Secretary-General and the White House have speculated that use of chemical weapons may well be on the cards, especially after a ‘preposterous’ Russian claim that the US was developing its own such weapons in Ukrainian laboratories:
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) March 13, 2022If Vladimir Putin uses weapons of mass destruction, that would be a "game changer", Poland's President says
Andrzej Duda tells #Raworth if Russia used chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, Nato would "have to think seriously about what to do"https://t.co/0ybNwOyuTr pic.twitter.com/DQ2HB8pJtH