alicia kearns, welcome to hardtalk. now, you are chair of the uk parliament s foreign affairs select committee. you have to take an overview of what is happening across foreign policy. would you agree that right now the bandwidth of foreign policy thinking is very much taken up by israel, by the war in gaza? absolutely. and this is one of the challenges that democracies have. we need to make sure that we can t say, well, we only have bandwidth to focus on one conflict, because unfortunately we don t have the liberty to say we have only one to focus on. but secondly, we re not doing enough to stop conflict popping up in other places. so until we are doing that, we don t get to say, well, we can only focus on israel and gaza for the next month, or, we can only focus on ukraine. we have to find a way to do both, and that means more multilateral working, more leaning on one another, more dividing and conquering in terms of our assets and what we re focusing on. and yet such
evening. i wonder if i can ask you first of all, how would you describe the length of time it has taken to get to this point? frankly terrible. we could have resolved this entire issue when ron warmington and iain henderson went in in the first place, if the post office had not tried to cover everything up and to protect the brand at the expense of the sub postmasters. ron warmington and ian henderson pulled up so it s terrible. d0 and ian henderson pulled up so it s terrible. , ., . and ian henderson pulled up so it s terrible. . . , terrible. do you have any reservations terrible. do you have any reservations about - terrible. do you have any reservations about mps l terrible. do you have any| reservations about mps of terrible. do you have any reservations about mps of returning convictions handed out by the courts? . convictions handed out by the courts? , ,., . convictions handed out by the courts? , ,., . , courts? it s something that is. it makes one cour
prosecution for ordinary acts is just absurd- prosecution for ordinary acts is ust absurd. . . just absurd. but the trump argument is that actually. just absurd. but the trump argument is that actually, if just absurd. but the trump argument is that actually, if you just absurd. but the trump argument is that actually, if you don t - just absurd. but the trump argument is that actually, if you don t have - is that actually, if you don t have presidential immunity, the difficulty is you will be governing with one eye over your shoulder for some future prosecution. and it may be something that actually is some kind of vexatious prosecution that will come after and it would open the floodgates to all that. this will come after and it would open the floodgates to all that.- the floodgates to all that. as the prosecutor the floodgates to all that. as the prosecutor said the floodgates to all that. as the prosecutor said today, the floodgates to all that. as the pro