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Badenoch presses Burnham on North Sea drilling and defense spending

PoliticsJOE's fast-starting PMQs excerpt moves from Russian interference to oil-field approvals, welfare and the budget.

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HIGHLIGHTS: Andy Burnham Wipes The Floor with Kemi Badenoch at PMQs

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1:09The Prime Minister emphasizes foreign interference and cites Badenoch's past statement that she had not read the Russia Report.
2:25Badenoch challenges his intelligence claims and asks for approval of the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields.
4:46The Prime Minister attributes approval delays to court rulings over processes inherited from the previous government.
5:18Badenoch presses for welfare cuts and a defense spending commitment of 3% of GDP.
8:02The Prime Minister reaffirms NATO and Ukraine commitments and criticizes the opposition's earlier "Iron Dome" proposal.
10:42The closing response points to decisions on social care and closer ties with Europe.

PoliticsJOE's PMQs highlights arrive with a pointed demand from Kemi Badenoch: stop delaying and approve the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields. Burnham's answer is that court rulings over processes inherited from the previous Conservative government caused the delays, with a pragmatic approach promised shortly.

The parliamentary excerpt has drawn about 164,000 views in its first 16 hours, already well beyond the channel's usual first-day audience for regular videos. PoliticsJOE titles it "HIGHLIGHTS: Andy Burnham Wipes The Floor with Kemi Badenoch at PMQs", but the exchange gives viewers several distinct policy arguments to follow beneath that editorial verdict.

It begins with Russian interference in the Brexit referendum. Badenoch challenges the Prime Minister's account of the intelligence position; he responds by citing her previous statement that she had not read the Russia Report.

The questioning then turns to how the government would pay for greater defense spending. Badenoch presses the case for cutting welfare to fund defense, while Burnham reaffirms commitments to NATO and Ukraine and criticizes the opposition's earlier "Iron Dome" proposal.

Small-business taxes and the government's direction ahead of the budget round out Badenoch's questions. For PoliticsJOE, it is another widely watched Burnham exchange after its immigration-debate excerpt with Robert Jenrick, but this time the agenda stretches from offshore energy to the choices facing the Treasury.

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