We listened to it over the radio". "Then you didn't shadow Firefly!"

VOA: special.2009.07.19

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Liam Byrne agreed that a majority of people thought benefit recipients were lazy and did not really want to work.

BBC: Political reporter, BBC News, in Manchester

For the Conservatives, shadow home secretary Dominic Grieve told BBC Radio 4's The World at One that Ms Smith's comments had been "quite astonishing".

BBC: Tory MP leak inquiry 'continuing'

Shadow education secretary Tim Yeo told BBC Radio 4's World This Weekend that Labour's top-up fee proposals would damage universities' independence and burden students with debt.

BBC: Some academics have joined students in opposing the plans