{"id":776698,"date":"2026-09-20T10:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T10:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/776698\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T10:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T10:38:17","slug":"lib-dem-leader-says-uk-should-join-eu-migration-pact-to-curb-small-boat-crossings-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/776698\/","title":{"rendered":"Lib Dem leader says UK should join EU migration pact to curb small boat crossings &#8211; follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phillipson and Davey to face questions on Sunday with Laura Kuenssbergpublished at 08:38 BST<\/p>\n<p>08:38 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg logo, presenter to the left of the frame wearing a hot pink blazer and white shirt\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2763ce20-23e6-4279-93d1-b5ee2d1f25c7.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In today&#8217;s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, we&#8217;ll be hearing from cabinet minister Bridget Phillipson and Liberal Democrats Leader Ed Davey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Davey&#8217;s appearance comes as the Lib Dems&#8217; annual conference is under way in Brighton &#8211; he&#8217;ll be making a keynote speech there on Tuesday, but first he&#8217;ll be fielding questions from Kuenssberg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Musician and songwriter Sting will also be joining the programme today. On the panel are broadcaster and former MP Gyles Brandreth, campaigner and broadcaster Nicola Thorp and The Economist&#8217;s editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We won&#8217;t be bringing you live text updates during the show, but you can watch live at the top of the page from 09:00 BST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phillipson and Davey to face questions on Sunday with Laura Kuenssbergpublished at 08:38 BST 08:38 BST In today&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-776698","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\/776698","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=776698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}