more now on our top story and the argument engulfing the conservatives after its former deputy chairman, lee anderson, was suspended from the parliamentary party. he d refused to apologise for saying the mayor of london, sadiq khan, was controlled by islamists. the deputy prime minister, oliver dowden, declined to call those comments islamophobic, but said he shared concerns they could be taken that way. he s been speaking to laura kuenssberg on her sunday morning programme. well, that s why the prime minister took action. he gave lee anderson the opportunity to apologise, he didn t take that opportunity. words matter. he didn t choose his words correctly and, having failed to apologise, the prime minister took action and removed the whip. i think that was the appropriate course of action to take. do you agree, though, that the remarks were islamophobic, anti muslim? i don t believe that lee anderson said those remarks she was concerned they would be interpreted, and for th
while handling conflicts abroad? the prime minister s right hand man oliver dowden is here to answer that question. from salford, labour s lisa nandyjoins us too. he s been caught in the headlines for the wrong reasons of late in charge during the post office scandal. but how does ed davey, the lib dem leader, want to change the script in this year of a general election? and, a week on from the death of alexei navalvny we ask the estonian prime minister what s it like to be one of putin s most wanted. good morning. with you and me for the next 60 minutes halima begum, the boss of the charity action aid, andy burnham, the labour mayor of greater manchester, now author, and therese coffey, who was deputy prime minister herself in liz truss cabinet. she is now a conservative backbench mp. a warm welcome to all three. and welcome to you, too. so let s first of all catch up with what s making the news. keir starmer accuses rishi sunak of harbouring extremists in his party
When you throw on this defense, of self-defense and there are a lot of scenario, not just when you are sitting in your house when you say it s obvious this person protected himself. i m not talking about this case but any case where a person had a right to protect themselves. a rape situation, somebody tries to shoot somebody, nobody would say that was inappropriate them. that s the problem a lot of us have here. how can the police determine that there was a reason for this and clearly when it was investigated by a special prosecutor they found and charged differently. let me ask you one other thing and we re going to run out of time. yes, sir. you put out a lot of stuff on trayvon martin that the judge did not allow yet you say we should go by the six or seven
Paul ryan who said, rape is a method of conception. can you imagine? then he had akin, so he spoke out against akin, but now he s cut a commercial for mourdock who somehow got god into a rape situation. this is the moment of truth. to you remember when i was talking about a war against women last year? i do. and people said, well, what is that about? and i laid it out. and now i think it is coming to fruition where everyone sees it. and i think mitt romney is in deep trouble. he said he d be delighted if he had legislation to overturn roe v. wade. he wants to get rid of planned parenthood. he doesn t get it. he doesn t even know if he d sign an equal pay act. do you senator, do you think that we need to hear more from mitt romney on the comment of rape, and is it a gift from god? you know what? i ve heard enough from mitt romney. he tries to be multiple choice. ed, you can t be multiple choice. a long time ago he said he was for a woman s right to choose. then he s against it