Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Ways and Means Nusrat Ghani discusses her role maintaining order in the House of Commons and what really happens during heated debates such as Prime Minister’s Questions and the Budget.

She reflects on the importance of parliamentary scrutiny, why she criticised budget leaks ahead of the Chancellor’s statement, and how debates in the chamber balance passion with accountability.

Ghani also talks about her career in politics, becoming the first ethnic minority MP elected as a Deputy Speaker, her experience serving as a minister, and the challenges faced by women and people from working-class backgrounds entering politics. The conversation also touches on abuse faced by MPs online and concerns in her constituency about proposals to house asylum seekers at a military training site in Crowborough.

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ANAS Sarwar has urged people to vote Labour in Scotland, even if they don’t like Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves.

In an exclusive GB News interview Mr Sarwar said he backed the Prime Minister, while admitting "things need to improve".

But he said the upcoming Holyrood elections were not about the PM or the Chancellor: they were about the future of Scotland.

And Mr Sarwar believes, despite the state of the polls, Labour will go on to win and depose the SNP after nearly two years in power, saying they’d mirror the fight shown by the Scottish football team.

He also spoke out to praise the Home Secretary commending the way she is tackling the immigration crisis.

Asked about Labour’s election chances he told Ms De Piero: “In six months’ time, the choice is not going to be about who the UK Labour government is.

“The choice is not going to be about who the Prime Minister is. Keir Starmer is not standing to be First Minister. Rachel Reeves is not standing to be First Minister. Nigel Farage is not standing to be First Minister. Me and John Swinney are standing to be First Minister.

“And the choice that people have in that election in six months is, do we have a third decade of the SNP in charge with record long NHS waiting lists, our schools falling down the international league tables, billions of pounds of lost and wasted money and the priorities and, for example, the cultural issues that the SNP continue to pursue, or are we going to take a different direction with me as First Minister?

“That's the choice, and I'm really confident when that choice is put in front of people in Scotland, they'll vote for that new direction.

“So we're kind of like the Scotland team qualifying for the World Cup. The underdog, always talked down but got over the line and made history, qualifying for the World Cup for the first time in 28 years. Labour is going to do the same, winning for the first time in 20 years in Scotland.”

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A Labour MP has called on the Government to rethink its policies on inheritance tax and net zero.

In an exclusive interview with GB News, Henry Tufnell said proposed IHT changes on farming would be worse than the Treasury had predicted.

The Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP also blasted the Government’s net zero drive saying it was “devastating” and would create poverty.

During a wide-ranging interview with Gloria De Piero, Mr Tufnell also spoke for the first time about the death of his brother Carleton, 22, who took his own-life.

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