Labour’s Anneliese Dodds condemned Rishi Sunak over his handling of the Elgin Marbles row. The prime minister cancelled a one-on-one meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in London, after he spoke out about the marbles – known as the Parthenon Sculptures – which he wants returned to Athens from the British Museum. The Labour Party chair said Sunak should be putting the country’s “security and economic interests first,” describing the marbles dispute as a “thin-skinned” debacle. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 We ultimately have a NATO ally in Greece.
00:03 Our Prime Minister should be putting our country's security and economic interests first.
00:08 And the fact that he walked away from having a meeting with a NATO ally
00:13 for what seems to be quite thin-skinned reasons is a big, big problem
00:17 and indicates the fact that he's not offering that statesman-like approach in his leadership.
00:21 We have said as the Labour Party we want those doors into primary care to be open to people.
00:27 It's far too difficult for people at the moment to get any kind of an appointment,
00:31 whether that's on the phone, online or in person.
00:34 We've got huge waiting lists.
00:36 That's why Labour has said how we would boost that primary care workforce, the GP workforce,
00:42 so that we had a long-term plan in that area.
00:44 And when it comes to the use of online or in-person appointments,
00:49 Labour would make sure that people who need to have an in-person appointment would actually be able to get it.
00:55 And viewers may have actually heard about Labour's plans to ensure that we had many more appointments.
01:00 We would pay for that by cancelling the non-DOM tax exemption
01:04 because we think if people live here, they should pay tax here.
01:08 Just one final question, we're expecting...