“People are treated with contempt, and if you keep slapping people across the face, they organise and do something about it, and they have done in Epping and good on them.” As more protests take place outside a migrant hotel in Epping, a government minister tells Newsnight he wants these hotels closed. Claire responded, along … Read more
Claire appeared on BBC’s Politics Live with Labour MP Rebecca Long-Bailey, Conservative MP Jack Rankin, the New Statesman‘s Rachel Cunliffe, and presenter Vicki Young. They discussed: the cancellation of operations due to the resident doctors strike; the call by the UK and 27 other countries for the war in Gaza to end; warnings that future … Read more
Claire appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions? at The College, Merthyr Tydfil, with Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth MS; Torsten Bell MP, a minister in the Treasury and the Department for Work & Pensions; Darren Millar MS, the leader of the Welsh Conservative group in the Senedd; and presenter Alex Forsyth. They discussed … Read more
Claire appeared on BBC’s Politics Live with Labour MP Sarah Smith, Conservative MP Stuart Andrew, broadcaster Reverend Richard Coles and presenter Vicki Young. The panel discussed how to fix the water industry, whether a man should have been fined for burning a Qu’ran outside the Turkish consulate in London, the link between the weather and … Read more
“Labour have got a working class problem. It’s not ‘my father’s a toolmaker and I went to a comp’, it’s understanding what ordinary people in this country were doing when they voted Reform.” Claire joined Praful Nargund, Director of the Good Growth Foundation, Nicholas Watt, Newsnight’s political editor, and Victoria Derbyshire to discuss the summit … Read more
“…we’re always urging scientists to get involved in politics… I can assure you any scientist that is involved in any cabinet of any government at the moment will make cuts in terms of science funding… are you going to expel them all?” Claire appeared on BBC’s Politics Live with Labour MP Natalie Fleet, Conservative MP … Read more
“I don’t care about Elon Musk or the person who runs Meta, what I care about is freedom of expression. And we have a Prime Minister who doesn’t value that as much as they say they do.” Claire appeared on the Politics Live panel with Labour MP Catherine Atkinson, Conservative peer James Bethell and JOE … Read more
Claire was on the BBC Politics Live panel with Labour MP Stella Creasy, Conservative MP George Freeman, Dr Parth Patel from the Institute for Public Policy Research, Bishop Rose Hudson-Wilkin and presenter Jo Coburn. They discussed the prospect of government football regulations, the forthcoming ban on disposable vapes, junk food taxes to tackle obesity, reparations … Read more
“It’s not a question of over-regulation or under-regulation, it’s the right regulations and not the wrong ones. And if when you challenge a regulation you’re told you just want to tear up red tape and you don’t believe in regulations, that’s a way of silencing a debate. You can create regulations… that’s not the same … Read more
On Newsnight, Claire discussed the Ukrainian incursion into Russian territory with Philip Collins, former Chief Speechwriter to Tony Blair, and presenter Faisal Islam. And, could Brussels really be out to rein in Elon Musk and X? Watch on iPlayer. The discussion begins 8 minutes in.