{"id":563767,"date":"2026-05-03T09:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/563767\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T09:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:27:07","slug":"sunday-with-laura-kuenssberg-kemi-badenoch-backs-stopping-some-protests-as-zack-polanski-says-free-speech-must-be-protected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/563767\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg: Kemi Badenoch backs stopping some protests as Zack Polanski says free speech must be protected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three party leaders and transport secretary to be questioned ahead of local electionspublished at 08:52 BST<\/p>\n<p>08:52 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s a bumper line-up for this week&#8217;s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She&#8217;ll question the Conservative Party&#8217;s Kemi Badenoch and the Green Party&#8217;s Zack Polanski.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kuenssberg will also quiz Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander. On the panel will be representatives from the SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It all comes ahead of elections on 7 May, when millions will vote in parliamentary elections in Scotland and Wales, and local elections in England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We won&#8217;t be providing regular text updates &#8211; but you can watch live at the top of the page from 09:00 BST. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For even more political analysis, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c0q2z7v3ly5o\" class=\"ssrcss-ztter6-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">head over here<\/a> for Laura Kuenssberg&#8217;s take on what to expect before next week&#8217;s elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three party leaders and transport secretary to be questioned ahead of local electionspublished at 08:52 BST 08:52 BST&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-563767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}