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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said the UK needs to send a “strong signal” that Houthi rebel attacks in the Red Sea are wrong and cannot be carried out with “impunity”.

Former foreign and defence secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind says the Government was “absolutely right” to launch ‘targeted strikes’ against Houthi rebels in Yemen.

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Douglas Murray calls on King’s College London to carry out an “urgent review” into a lecture that called for “suppressing” him.

“It's deeply sinister, I’ve got my lawyers looking into this - I’d like the Government to look into it.”

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Julia Hartley-Brewer says justice must be done for wrongly convicted sub-postmasters.

"I want these people compensated, minimum £600,000, probably doesn't touch the sides of lost earnings, losing your home, maybe your marriage."

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Former Conservative Post Office minister Paul Scully says Horizon scandal victims need action, not words.

"These people have been failed by politicians, by the post office, by lots of people in authority."

Son of victim and campaigner Varchas Patel, says the Post Office scandal made his father so numb, "he couldn't even get out of bed."

"There was anarchy in a village, rumours started to spread, and people became horrible towards my father."

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Former Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable said he will not join calls for former Post Office boss Paula Vennells to lose her CBE over the Horizon scandal.

Commentator Sam Armstrong reacts to Vince Cable’s exchange with Julia, saying he has “no respect” for him.

“What I just witnessed was the most panglossian… disgraceful, Yes Minister style, pathetic not even a defence for what happened under his tenure.”

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Ex military intelligence officer Philip Ingram says the risk of a wider war in the Middle East “is increasing”.

"Regional instability plays into Putin’s hands and it’s what Iran wants. The international community has to play a careful game to try to stop it."

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In today's podcast, Julia talks to a caller who is filled with rage at the junior doctors as they begin the longest strike in NHS history.

Julia Hartley-Brewer also challenges the BMA’s Dr Robert Laurenson as to whether or not striking during the busiest period in the NHS calendar is immoral.

“How many patients do you think is reasonable to die for you to get the pay deal you want?”

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In today's podcast Julia chats to polling expert and Tory peer Lord Robert Hayward about when the general election will take place.

Lord Hayward predicts either October or November.

“People don’t feel the benefit of tax changes for a number of months. The suggestion of a tax-cutting budget in March and go in May doesn’t hold water.”

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