24/07/2021

07/24/21 • 27 min

Steve Richards looks back at the political year with Fraser Nelson of The Spectator, Pippa Crerar of The Daily Mirror and George Parker of The Financial Times.

Steve Richards looks back at the political year with Fraser Nelson of The Spectator, Pippa Crerar of The Daily Mirror and George Parker of The Financial Times.

Previous Episode

17/07/2021

Radio 4's assessment of developments at Westminster. This weekend we discuss: Racism with Shaun Bailey AM, Conservative London Assembly member, and Sunder Katwala, director of British Future. Covid-19 with Greg Clark MP, chair of Science and Technology Select Committee and Professor Sir Mark Walport, former government chief scientific advisor. Planning reforms with Theresa Villiers MP and Anya Martin, director of Priced Out housing We also interview Kim Leadbeater MP, new Labour MP for Batley and Spen.

Next Episode

11/09/2021

Radio 4's assessment of developments at Westminster, presented by the Financial Times' George Parker. This weekend we discuss: health and social care plans with Lord Nick MacPherson, permanent secretary at the Treasury 2005-2016 and Laura Trott MP, member of the Health and Social Care Select Committee. The twentieth anniversary of 9/11 with Lord George Robertson, secretary general of NATO 1999-2004 and Bronwen Maddox, now director of the Institute for Government who was foreign editor at The Times on 9/11. The Environment Bill in the House of Lords with Stanley Johnson, international ambassador of the Conservative Environmental Network. And the state of British politics with Anoosh Chakelian, Britain editor of the New Statesman, and Lucy Fisher, deputy political editor of The Telegraph.