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Politics: Where Next?

Dec 20, 2019

The election done, what is next for the politically dispossessed? 
 
This week Gary talks to Pat McFadden, who worked for Tony Blair in Downing street and has been MP for Wolverhampton since 2005.
 
He is joined by Rory Stewart who was thrown out of the Tory Party by Boris Johnson and is now running for Mayor of London...


Dec 6, 2019

Mere days away from the general election, Gary Gibbon sits down with the political editor of the Daily Mirror, Pippa Crerar, and by James Kirkup, director of the Social Market Foundation, and before that a senior journalist at The Telegraph.


Nov 29, 2019

This week Gary speaks to Stephen Bush, the Political Editor of the New Statesman and Tory Peer Danny Finkelstein.

They talk to Gary about the party manifestos, who is ahead of the race and what comes after the election.


Nov 15, 2019

Veteran political analyst Professor John Curtice and Professor Matthew Goodwin of the University of Kent tell Gary Gibbon their predictions for this general election.

Curtice is also a senior fellow of the UK in a Changing Europe research unit, where we sit down to record this...


Nov 1, 2019

Ken Clarke and Iain Duncan Smith, two of the most senior, long standing members of the Tory Party, discuss the state of the Conservatives. 

Clarke had the whip withdrawn in September after he voted against the government. 
 
A passionate opponent of Brexit and a life-long Europhile Clarke discusses how Brexit and...