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"I had to call Elizabeth Taylor to tell her not to come to dinner because David was a bit tired."
Dan Lepard, personal chef of David Hockney in the 1990s, shares a memory of his time working for the influential British artist, who has died aged 88.
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John Healey has resigned as defence secretary after criticising the full financial settlement for the Defence Investment Plan, saying it 'falls short' of what the country needs.
Sir Richard Barrons, co-author of the strategic defence review, reacts to the resignation.
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Labour MP Melanie Ward has accused 32 UK registered charities of funnelling ÂŁ28m to illegal Israeli settlements.
She says the Charity Commission 'needs to get its act together' and investigate, while David Ward from the commission denies the body is 'asleep at the wheel'.
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"What take away is there for the government from this attack?"
@Sarah_Montague asks Cabinet Office minister James Frith about tighter border controls, as the Belfast suspect Hadi Alodid is charged with attempted murder.
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HM Chief Inspector of Prisons has urgently put HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes into special measures for the second time in three years.
Charlie Taylor explains how a 'bottleneck' in the vetting process is causing major staffing issues.
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"We have the opportunity here, in a matter of months, to basically eliminate child sex abuse in the UK."
Former safeguarding minister Jess Phillips reacts to the government's plan to block children from taking and viewing nude images, after resigning from her post in May.
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The government has given tech companies three months to block access to naked images on smartphones and other devices for under-18s. But what happens if they don't comply?
Victims minister Catherine Atkinson says 'there will be sanctions', including 'significant fines'.
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The Public Accounts Committee report has been looking at the way that the Home Office deals with asylum seekers.
Its chair, Tory MP Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, says the report has found that the system is 'in chaos'.
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The Home office has told us:
“Asylum claims are down, hotel use is falling and immigration enforcement activity is at the highest level on record - with the largest number of raids and arrests ever."
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Does the UK have so-called two-tier policing?
@Sarah_Montague asks Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens and Shadow Home Office minister Katie Lam, following protests in Southampton over the murder of Henry Nowak.
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"We will be announcing a raft of new measures to remove all of this 'anti-racism' which creates racism."
Zia Yusuf, Reform UK's spokesperson for home affairs, explains what he thinks must happen now following the case of murdered student Henry Nowak and bodycam footage released.
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says that people should respond to Henry Nowak's death in 'pure cold rage', and it is evidence of a 'two-tier culture'.
@Sarah_Montague hears from Stephen Roberts, former Met Police deputy assistant commissioner, and Reform UK's Zia Yusuf.
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"Clearly he was no threat."
Former Met Police deputy assistant commissioner Stephen Roberts, who also served as director of professional standards, tells @Sarah_Montague Henry Nowak shouldn't have been handcuffed during his arrest as he lay dying, as seen in bodycam footage.
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"It's not my job to tell the union members who to vote for."
Paul Nowak, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress, says he is 'concerned but not surprised' that polling suggests union members are now just as likely to support Reform as Labour.
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"This is an object with the explosive capacity of a small nuclear weapon."
Doctor and broadcaster Kevin Fong, who spent time working on Nasa's human space flight programme, speaks to @JonnyDymond about Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket which exploded last night.
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“If there’s something called a Board of Peace, so be it… better than a Board of War.”
Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and aiming to be the next Secretary General of the UN, speaks about peace negotiations and the role of the UN.
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The number of young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs) rose to more than one million in the months January to March.
Rachel Watkyn, founder of The Tiny Box Company, tells The World at One what she thinks is going on, and how she's adapting for younger staff.
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"What he has done is fired the starting gun on a kind of race to see who can come up with a plausible idea of where Britain should be going."
Labour peer Lord Wood reacts to Sir Tony Blair's critique of the government and modern politics generally.
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Sir Keir Starmer has said the sentences of boys spared custody over the rape of two girls in Hampshire will be referred to the Court of Appeal.
Former Old Bailey judge Wendy Joseph talks about the guidelines the judge will have used in the original sentencing.
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"They can apply again to get the contract, but we're looking at months again."
Susan Hall, Â Leader of the Conservatives on the London Assembly, responds to the news that London Mayor Sadiq Khan has blocked a ÂŁ50m deal between Palantir and the Met Police.
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