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Baroness sayeeda warsi, former conservative party chairman in your interview there, and i'm struck by the fact that you gave her plenty of opportunity to leap to the prime minister's defence and she chose not to do that. she spoke in her own way and let those words stand. let me take you to another example, which arguably is more disturbing because it is somebody who was until a matter of hours ago a government minister, lord agnew, standing up at the dispatch box in the house of lords and as far as i could see, basically saying the government department at which i work on the government of wh...

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Problems. i think it's a shame in a way that lord agnew has resigned, and wonder if other ministers have shared his fear. i remember when ben wallace, now the secretary... was talking about fraud and the way it supports organised crime, and his efforts to take it seriously when he was at the home office. i think what you have to do as a minister is find a network of people across that you can work with. it's clear that, whether through his own fault or simply because the government is distracted — or i think is right, the governmentjust does not understand the seriousness of a set of crimes ...

At number two or three minister in a huge department, the government can be quite a frustrating business. does that offer any defence against what lord agnew was saying today? in what lord agnew was saying today? in a sense, the treasury has a defence, which was that this was a global pandemic pretty much unprecedented, and they had to get these loans out — all the support that went through the income taxes and furlough out at fast speed, and obviously the checks weren't going to be as good as they would like them to be. but i think that you are right, often people with policy ambition come ...

Johnson said this to the nation: "i urge everyone to continue to show restraint and respect the rules which are designed to keep us all safe." he went on: "it's only because of the restraint that everyone, you all have shown so far, that we are able to move gradually out of this lockdown". let's speak to our political correspondent chris mason. this has been a shocker of a day. it started with the allegations that have been made by the conservative muslim mp nusrat ghani, who said that she was sacked for being muslim. the treasury minister lord agnew resigned at the dispatch box this afternoon...